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The Court of Appeal hears appeals in civil proceedings from the High Court except for those cases in which the Supreme Court has permitted an appeal to it on being satisfied that the appeal meets the threshold set out in Article 34.5.4° of the Constitution. The Court of Appeal also determines questions of law referred to it by the Circuit Court and High Court military judge hearing a Courts-Martial (cases stated). The court also continues to deal with appeals transferred from the Supreme Court which had been initiated before the establishment of the court on 28th October 2014 and had not been fully or partly heard by the Supreme Court by that date.

The court operates two directions lists which allows the court to case-manage every new appeal lodged – one list for appeals which fall within the categories as set out in Order 86A Rule 7 of the Rules of the Superior Courts (expedited appeals) and another list for all other appeals (ordinary appeals). Appeals transferred from the Supreme Court (Article 64 appeals) are also case-managed by the court by way of periodic call over of groups of such cases and pending inclusion on one of the call over lists any party to an Article 64 appeal may avail of the provisions of a dedicated practice direction dealing with such appeals to have an appeal included in one of the weekly directions lists for the allocation of a hearing date.

* cases transferred from Supreme Court

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