0800 COURTS closes at 3:00pm 24 December 2025, for urgent matters (relating to family matter or bail conditions), please call 0800 253 425. 0800 4 FINES closes at 7:00pm, 24 December 2025. Our Contact Centres will reopen at 8:00am on Monday 5 January 2026. National Office (Aitken Street, Wellington) reception will be closed from 3:00pm on Friday 19 December, reopening at 8:00am on Monday 5 January 2026. For more information, see Court and Tribunal hours
If you want to have reviewed a registrar’s or deputy registrar’s decision (that does not relate to a fee waiver application) you will need to file an interlocutory application within 5 working days of receiving the decision.
This application incurs the usual interlocutory application fee
Find out more in rule 2.11 of the High Court Rules(external link)
If you wish to have reviewed a registrar’s or deputy registrar’s decision to decline a fee waiver application you will need to file a written request for a judge to review the decision within 20 working days of receiving the decision. There is no fee to have a decision reviewed.
Find out more in section 160 of the Senior Courts Act 2016(external link)
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