The supreme court shall have the general superintendence of all courts of inferior jurisdiction to prevent and correct errors and abuses therein where no other remedy is expressly provided by law.
Haw. Rev. Stat. § 602-4
Superintendence of inferior courts
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case In Re Petition for Writ of Prohibition (1988)
Most recently applied in Gordon v. Maesaka-Hirata. (November 2018)
L 1892, c 57, §50; RL 1925, §2223; RL 1935, §3592; RL 1945, §9603; RL 1955, §214-3; HRS §602-4; ree L 1979, c 111, pt of §2
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Hawaii State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Hawaii statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.