Talk:Supreme Court of New Zealand

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Can anyone down that way get an image of the Supreme Court building that is currrenly been used Brian | (Talk) 23:27, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

They're currently using part of the (new) Wellington High Court. The old High Court (next to the Law School) is to be used as the Supreme Court sometime in the future. --Lholden 01:19, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
Not sure where this goes in the article but at one stage it was going to be called the "Final Court of Appeal", but they decided to go with "Supreme Court of New Zealand" (SCONZpronouced "scones")instead. --Midnighttonight 10:05, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Nice to see on the news tonight "Privy Council Appeal" <-- shame it will be one of the last Brian | (Talk) 10:44, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Midnight - I think that was the first proposal back in the 80s under Palmer as MoJ.

Brian - Yeah, interesting because the new UK Supreme Court will surely be sitting soon... --Lholden 01:43, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Not clear - number of judges

The article talks about the appointment of a 6th permanent judge and then another. It's not particularly but I assume that these judges were to replace existing judges who stepped down? Or does the court now have 6 or 7 judges? Nil Einne 08:15, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Legal profession opposition?

Can we cite sources for the claim that the legal profession generally opposed the creation of the Supreme Court? I'm looking at the New Zealand Law Society's submission on the Supreme Court Bill [1] and it doesn't have that sense. It's more like, if you're going to drop the Privy Council, it should be replaced with a quality Supreme Court, and here are some ideas for making it good quality. --Tirana 02:22, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

I think the statement is accurate, although finding a source maybe difficult, as most opposition is anecdotal. I think the NZLS position wasn't that well supported by lawyers either, although I personally agree with it. --Lholden 02:49, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Number of Decisions

"Since then, the Court has heard a further 11 substantive appeals (with decisions released in nine of those), along with approximately 55 applications of leave to appeal." This sentence is now somewhat out of date. As of March 2008 there have been 56 substantive decisions handed down. However I wonder if it is no longer apt to keep track of the number of cases the court has gone through. This might have been appropriate when the court was relatively new and the number of cases it had managed to hear was still noteworthy, however I think that this time has now passed. This sentence ought to be deleted. If not it should be updated regualarly until the point of exhaustion is reached. Thecrystalcicero (talk) 19:24, 10 March 2008 (UTC)