There is provision for active case management by the President of the Court of Appeal or by a judge nominated by him.\u00a0 The President of the Court of Appeal is given statutory jurisdiction to issue practice directions<\/p>\n
Rules of court may be made for the Court of Appeal.\u00a0 Additional members are appointed to the Superior Courts Rules committee. The\u00a0 general provisions applicable to the\u00a0 making of rules of courts apply to the Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n
The office of the Registrar of the Court of Appeal is established.\u00a0 His \u00a0functions are similar to the those of the registrars in the Supreme Court and High Courts.\u00a0 The provisions applicable to court officers generally in the Superior Courts apply.<\/p>\n
Practice directions may relate to civil and \u00a0criminal matters.\u00a0 They may relate to classes of proceedings.\u00a0 They may make supplementary and consequential additional amendments as appear necessary or expedient.<\/p>\n
The exercise of pleading practice and procedure in the Court of Appeal including liability as to costs is to be exercised where there is no specific rule in the matter as nearly as possibly in the same manner as it might have been exercised by the courts or judges which previously had jurisdiction (generally the Supreme Court).<\/p>\n\n
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2014 Changes The Supreme Court formerly heard all appeals from the High Court, as the sole appeal court designated by the Constitution. A backlog of up to four years had developed in Supreme Court appeals, due to the significant increase in the number of appeals from the High Court. This followed the fourfold increase in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,271],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29658"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29983,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29658\/revisions\/29983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}