Writ
Grants certiorari before judgment in TinyTeranadon v. The Government and orders the record and the Government’s Answer by 11 November 2026.
Ref SCND-2026-001
Instruments
Writs & Orders
What the Court can order, and every instrument it has issued.
What each writ does
- Certiorari
- An order by which the Supreme Court agrees to review a case and calls up the record from the level below.
- Mandamus
- An order telling an official to carry out a duty the rules require of them.
- Prohibition
- An order stopping an official or a lower body from acting beyond its powers.
- Habeas corpus
- An order requiring whoever keeps a member under a restriction, such as a ban or a mute, to justify it to the Court or lift it.
- Show cause
- An order requiring someone to explain why the Court should not take a step against them, such as finding them in contempt.
- Contempt
- Disobeying the Court or its orders, or disrupting its work; the Court can punish it.
Issued instruments
Check any sealed instrument on the Verify page.