Annual report
The Supreme Court, the Procurator General's Office at the Supreme Court and the Operations Directorate together constitute the joint organisation the Supreme Court. Within the Supreme Court there is a Civil Section, a Criminal Section and a Tax Section. In this annual report, the Supreme Court’s various parts and sections report on their work in the year 2024.
The highest court in civil, criminal and tax law cases, the Supreme Court has an important and responsible role within the judiciary. Within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, it helps ensure that the law performs its functions for the benefit of people and organisations in our democratic state under the rule of law. The work it does can always be traced back to the core of the Supreme Court's social task: providing individual legal protection, ensuring uniformity of law and contributing to the development of law.
The people working at the joint organisation the Supreme Court again committed to fulfilling that task in 2024. In order to continue to perform its task properly in a changing society, it is important for the Supreme Court to be at the centre of society. The new section entitled "The Supreme Court and society" explains how the Supreme Court accomplished this during the reporting year.
The Supreme Court aims to administer high-quality justice in cassation in the interests of litigants and organisations. The Procurator General's Office at the Supreme Court issues independent opinions, known as advisory opinions, on the judgments to be made in cases submitted to the Supreme Court. The Procurator General at the Supreme Court can also help the Supreme Court to create unity of law without parties in litigation initiating cassation proceedings. He or she does so by instituting cassation in the interest of the law. The Office’s responsibilities also include other special procedures, which implement the Procurator General's supervisory role for the judicial organisation. In 2024, the Operations Directorate staff again played a major role in facilitating the work of the members of the Supreme Court and the Procurator General's Office at the Supreme Court.
The annual report describes how the Supreme Court was able to contribute to the fulfilment of its overarching role in 2024, which is to protect the rights, obligations and interests of people and organisations in our democratic state under the rule of law.
Dineke de Groot, President
Edwin Bleichrodt, Procurator General
Luuk Aarts, Director of Operations
