Courts of Justice Act, 1928
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Appeals from the District Court in criminal cases. |
18.—(1) An appeal shall lie in criminal cases from a Justice of the District Court against any order (not being merely an order returning for trial or binding to the peace or good behaviour or to both the peace and good behaviour) for the payment of a penal or other sum or for the doing of anything at any expense or for the estreating of any recognizance or for the undergoing of any term of imprisonment by the person against whom the order shall have been made. | |
(2) Where immediately before the commencement of Part III of the Principal Act an appeal lay in a criminal case at the instance of a complainant or prosecutor against an order of a District Justice appointed under the District Justices (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1923 (No. 6 of 1923) an appeal of the like kind shall lie in such criminal case at the instance of a complainant or prosecutor from an order of a Justice of the District Court. | ||
(3) Every appeal under this section from an order of a Justice of the District Court shall lie to the Judge of the Circuit Court within whose circuit the District or any part of the District of such Justice lies, and the decision of such Judge on such appeal shall be final and conclusive and not appealable. |