Court of Appeal Act 2014
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Amendment of section 2 of Courts (Establishment and Constitution) Act 1961 | ||
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32. Section 2 of the Courts (Establishment and Constitution) Act 1961 is amended by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (5): | ||
“(5) (a) Where, owing to the illness of a judge of the High Court or for any other reason, a sufficient number of judges of the High Court is not available for the transaction of the business of that Court or, on account of the volume of business to be transacted in the High Court or for any other reason arising from the state of business in that Court, it is expedient to increase temporarily the number of judges available for the purposes of the High Court— | ||
(i) the Chief Justice, at the request of the President of the High Court, may request any ordinary judge of the Supreme Court to sit in the High Court as an additional judge thereof, or | ||
(ii) the President of the Court of Appeal, at the request of the President of the High Court, may request any ordinary judge of the Court of Appeal to sit in the High Court as an additional judge thereof, | ||
and every ordinary judge of the Supreme Court or of the Court of Appeal, as the case may be, so requested shall sit in the High Court. | ||
(b) Whenever an ordinary judge of the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeal sits in the High Court in pursuance of this subsection, he or she shall be an additional judge of the High Court for all the purposes of that Court.”. |