The Supreme Court issued 464 decisions in 2025, compared with 387 in 2024, an increase of around 20%. The Court released the statistics and posted them on the X platform today, Tuesday.
A total of 1,013 decisions were issued from 1 July 2023 to 31 December 2025: 162 in the second half of 2023, 387 in 2024 and 464 in 2025.
The largest category was prerogative writs, with a total of 524 decisions. Of these, 81 were issued in 2023, 201 in 2024 and 242 in 2025.
The second-largest category comprised decisions issued in the context of the Supreme Court’s appellate civil jurisdiction. A total of 371 such decisions were issued: 72 in the second half of 2023, 134 in 2024 and 165 in 2025.
The statistics also record 69 decisions on applications for leave or following leave. Three were issued in the second half of 2023, 28 in 2024 and 38 in 2025.
A further 18 decisions concerned applications for legal aid—three in 2023, seven in 2024 and eight in 2025—while ten decisions concerned applications for a judge’s recusal. Of the latter, two were issued in 2023, seven in 2024 and one in 2025.
During the same period, the Admiralty Court issued eight decisions: one in 2023, three in 2024 and four in 2025. The statistics also record five decisions on criminal applications and five on appeals against decisions of the District Court acting as an Election Court.
The figures include one decision on the retrial of a case in 2025. They also record one restoration application in 2024, under the Law providing for the restoration of persons convicted in criminal cases in light of judgments of the ECHR, as well as one decision concerning extradition proceedings for a fugitive in 2024.
Source: CNA
