Supreme Court of Judicature Act (Ireland) 1877

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Power of a single Judge in Court of Appeal.

56. Every appeal to the Court of Appeal shall, where the subject matter of the appeal is a final order, decree, or judgment, be beard before not less than three Judges of the said Court sitting together, and shall, when the subject-matter of the appeal is an interlocutory order, decree, or judgment, be heard before not less than two Judges of the said Court sitting together.

Any doubt which may arise as to what decrees orders or judgments are final, and what are interlocutory, shall be determined by the Court of Appeal.

Any direction incidental to a proceeding in appeal, not involving the hearing of such decrees judgments or orders, final or interlocutory, as aforesaid, may be given by a single Judge of the Court of Appeal, and a single Judge of the Court of Appeal may at any time during vacation make any interim order to prevent prejudice to the claims of any parties pending an appeal as he may think fit; but every such order made by a single Judge may be discharged or varied by the Court of Appeal.