How much of Singapore's reported case law comes from the Court of Appeal
11 data points · Singapore case-law corpus
Of the 845 reported Singapore judgments in this corpus, 85 (10.1%) were decided by the Court of Appeal — Singapore's apex court. The full distribution of reported judgments by court is listed below. Note: this corpus records what each court decided but not yet the outcome of each appeal, so an appeal-by-appeal overturn rate is not computed here — see the methodology.
Key findings
Every figure below is computed from the Singapore case-law corpus and links to its source. See the methodology for how the numbers were derived.
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Does this show the Court of Appeal's reversal or overturn rate?
No. Calculating an overturn rate requires the outcome of each appeal — whether it was allowed or dismissed — to be recorded for every case. The corpus currently holds the judgments and their catchwords but not a structured outcome for each appeal, so an overturn rate is not reported here. The figures above describe caseload volume by court only.
Why are the Court of Appeal and the Appellate Division counted separately?
They are different courts. The Court of Appeal (SGCA, with SGCA(I) for international commercial appeals) is Singapore's apex appellate court; the Appellate Division of the High Court (SGHC(A)) hears a separate tier of appeals. They are reported as distinct courts in the distribution above.
Methodology
Counts are of reported judgments published in this corpus, grouped by the deciding court. The Court of Appeal figure combines the Court of Appeal (SGCA) and the Court of Appeal (International) (SGCA(I)); the Appellate Division of the High Court (SGHC(A)) is reported separately. An overturn or reversal rate would require the disposition of each appeal — whether it was allowed, dismissed in part or dismissed — to be extracted from each judgment. That structured outcome data is not present in this corpus, so no overturn rate is reported here rather than estimate one; this analysis is limited to caseload volume. Figures were last computed on 2026-06-14 and update as the corpus grows.
Compiled by the SG Case Law editorial team from primary sources — the judgments themselves and Singapore Statutes Online (sso.agc.gov.sg). · Updated 14 June 2026 · How we compile this