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Include this in your appeal
If a court of appeal judgment or decision can be appealed to the Supreme Court, an appendix to the ruling normally states what the appeal must contain. If you have an email address, please state this.
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State the reasons why the Supreme Court should grant leave to appeal
The main rule is that the Supreme Court only grants leave to appeal if its judgment or decision can provide a precedent (give guidance on how courts are to assess similar cases). Thus, state why a Supreme Court ruling can be valuable for the application of law in a perspective wider than just your own case. Alternatively, state why you consider there are exceptional reasons for the Supreme Court to try your appeal.
If your appeal relates to a court of appeal decision not to allow review of a case, you need to state both why the court of appeal should have granted leave to appeal and why the Supreme Court should grant such leave.
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Send your appeal to the court of appeal that decided your case
Your appeal is to be sent to the court of appeal that decided your case. This is so that this court can give an opinion on whether the appeal was submitted within the stated deadline. Please do not hesitate to send your appeal via email. The court of appeal then sends its file and the appeal to the Supreme Court.
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The Supreme Court processes your appeal
The appeal is first examined to assess whether any supplementation is necessary. If the appeal is not complete, you will be notified. When the appeal is complete, it is handed over to a drafting law clerk or a judge referee. This person is in charge of the further processing of the appeal.
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This is how long it takes
Normally, the Supreme Court decides whether to grant leave to appeal within a couple of months after it receives the application. This decision is taken by one or more Justices of the Supreme Court. Usually, a good 90% of applications for leave to appeal are decided by a single Justice of the Supreme Court.
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The court sends you its decision on leave to appeal
When the court has decided whether to grant leave to appeal, a copy of the decision is sent to you and your counter-party.
If the Supreme Court decides not to grant leave to appeal, this means that it will not accept your case for trial. In this event, the ruling of the court of appeal stands. The Supreme Court’s decision on leave to appeal is immediately legally binding and cannot be appealed.
If the court grants leave to appeal, the processing of the case continues.
The film was recorded on the 21st of January 2019 (in Swedish).