Court of Appeal Act 2014

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Chapter 7

General

Precedence between judges of Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and High Court

28. The Act of 1924 is amended by the substitution of the following section for section 9:

“9. The precedence between judges shall be as follows:

(a) the Chief Justice shall rank first;

(b) the President of the Court of Appeal shall rank after the Chief Justice;

(c) the President of the High Court shall rank after the President of the Court of Appeal;

(d) then shall rank the judges of the Supreme Court who are former Chief Justices each accordingly to priority of his or her appointment as Chief Justice;

(e) next shall rank the other judges of the Supreme Court, other than the ex officio judges of that Court to whom paragraphs (f) and (g) relate, each according to priority of his or her first appointment as an ordinary judge of the Supreme Court;

(f) then shall rank the judges of the Court of Appeal who are ex officio judges of the Supreme Court (being former Presidents of the Court of Appeal or of the High Court) each according to priority of his or her appointment as President of the Court of Appeal or of the High Court respectively;

(g) next shall rank the judges of the High Court who are ex officio judges of the Supreme Court (being former Presidents of the High Court), each according to priority of his or her appointment as President of the High Court;

(h) then shall rank the other judges of the Court of Appeal each according to priority of his or her first appointment as an ordinary judge of that Court;

(i) next shall rank the other judges of the High Court, other than the ex officio judges of that Court to whom paragraph (j) or (k) relate, each according to priority of his or her first appointment as an ordinary judge of the High Court;

(j) then shall rank the President of the Circuit Court by virtue of being an additional judge of the High Court;

(k) next shall rank the other judges of the Circuit Court who are ex officio judges of the High Court (being former Presidents of the Circuit Court to whom section 7 (3) of the Courts (No. 2) Act 1997 relates) each according to the priority of his or her appointment as President of the Circuit Court.”.