Canadian Bar Association Overview of the Supreme Court in 2024

The Canadian Bar Association's publication CBA National recently provided an overview of the 2024 activities of the Supreme Court of Canada:

"The Supreme Court of Canada’s 2024 workload was not quite back up to pre-pandemic levels, but it has been getting closer. And because the Court will mark its 150th anniversary this year, it will take on additional functions to mark the occasion."

"The Court granted 35 leaves in 2024, fewer than the 41 granted in 2023 and down from the high of about 50 in the early 2010s. Eugene Meehan, a partner with Supreme Advocacy LLP in Ottawa, says those numbers have been consistent over the past few years."

"Drawing on his tracking of the Court's statistics, he says that the percentage of leaves granted remains low at about 6.5 per cent in 2024, though up from six per cent in 2023, which was the lowest in the past ten years. The high rates were ten per cent in 2014 and 2017. Those leaves do not include mandatory as-of-right appeals."