51 tal-1994

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L .N. 51 of

CODE OF ORGANIZATION AND CIVIL PROCEDURE

(CAP. 12)

Court of Appeal (Distrlbut\oCl ofC_ l Mules, 1994

The PresideD! of Malta approved the following Rules of Coun

made by the Rule Making Board constituted in terms of section 29 of lhe

Code of Organwllion and Civil Procedure.

I. These Rules may be cited as the Court of Appeal (Distribution

o r Cases) Rules , 1994, and shall come inlofo= on Ihe29th April, 1994.

The Chief Justia: ilhall assign and appoint lbe~ lobe heard

by the Second Chamber of lhe Court of Appeal, and ~ by the: fint

Chamber of the same Court, on the basis of the following principles:-

<I) the cases 10 be appointed sbaU as much as pouible 10Llow

ch ronologkaJly those cases whiCh arc monthly appointed in the

First Chamber of the Court in such manner Ihal such appointme nts

$hall be in subsidiary function 10 the appointments before the First

Oaamber ;

(b) a ease in which ajudgment had been passed byoneofthe

judges silling in the Second ClUImbcr shall not be lWigncd 10 Ihat

Chamber ;

(cl an appeal from a judgment passed by the Gozo Court

i hall not be titan:! by the Serond Chamber;

(d) appeals wh ich primll !IJcit appear 10 be of a complex or

romplicated nalure or which would require hearings spread over

mo«i than one sitting. shall normally be Ikall with by the First

Ch.mber.