List of Canadian appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, 1890–1899

This page lists all cases of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council originating in Canada, and decided in the years 1890 to 1899.

From 1867 to 1949, the JCPC was the highest court of appeal for Canada (and, separately, for Newfoundland). During this period, its decisions on Canadian appeals were binding precedent on all Canadian courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada. Any decisions from this era that the Supreme Court of Canada has not overruled since gaining appellate supremacy in 1949 remain good law, and continue to bind all Canadian courts other than the Supreme Court.Debra Parks, Precedent Unbound? Contemporary Approaches to Precedent in Canada (Vancouver: UBC Allard Faculty Publications, 2007), p.3, at

The Parliament of Canada abolished appeals to the JCPC of criminal cases in 1933Criminal Code Amendment Act S.C. 1932–33, c. 53, s. 17 and civil cases in 1949.Supreme Court Amendment Act, S.C. 1949 (2nd. session), c. 37, s. 3 Ongoing cases that had begun before those dates remained appealable to the JCPC.Bora Laskin, The Hamlyn Lectures, Twenty-First Series: The British Tradition in Canadian Law (London: Stevens & Sons, 1969), pp. 1–3, at The final JCPC ruling on a Canadian case was rendered in 1959, in Ponoka-Calmar Oils v Wakefield.

1890–1899