Supreme Advocacy

Supreme Court of Canada — Application for Leave to Appeal and Appeal Statistics

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Appeals

Leaves to Appeal

Key Trends

Appeals Heard by Year

Leave Grant Rate (%)

Unanimous Rate (%)

Avg Months: Hearing to Judgment

Applications for Leave to Appeal

Leave Applications Filed by Year

Leave Decisions: Granted vs Dismissed

Leave Grant Rate (%) by Year

Leave Outcomes (in selected range)

Note: Leave filing and disposition dates are populated where bulletin / leave records exist (roughly a third of all cases), with strongest coverage in recent decades.

Appeals Heard

Total Appeals Heard by Year

By Type: AOR vs By Leave vs From-Bench

Hearing Days by Year

From-Bench Decisions by Year

Appeal Judgments

Judgments Rendered by Year

From Bench vs Reserved by Year

Appeal Outcomes

Allowed vs Dismissed by Year

Allow Rate (%) by Year

Unanimous vs Split by Year

Unanimous Rate (%) by Year

Note: Outcome views use cases with an appeal outcome captured in the database. From-bench decisions can be undercounted when no written reasons page exists.

Time Lapses (average months)

Leave Filed → Leave Decided

Leave Decided → Hearing  sparse

Hearing → Judgment (reserved)

Initial Filing → Final Judgment  sparse

Note: "Leave decided → hearing" and "initial filing → final judgment" require cases to have both endpoint dates, so they cover fewer cases and appear mainly in recent years.

Where Cases Come From

Cases by Province / Territory and Year (stacked)

Total Cases by Province / Territory

Route Into the Court

Court of Origin (neutral-citation era)

Note: Court of origin is parsed from the appeal citation, so it mainly captures the neutral-citation era (roughly 2000 onward). Province / territory coverage spans the full range.

Subject Matter

Civil vs Criminal by Year

Criminal Share (%) by Year

Note: Civil vs criminal is derived from the database's subject-area coding, which is thorough for older years but thins out after ~2015. A more detailed subject breakdown can be added once recent coding improves.

Full Statistical Summary by Year

Recent Cases (outcome captured)

DateCase NameCitationProv. OutcomeDecisionDelivery