Court of Appeal (Distribution of Cases) (Amendment) Rules, 2023

L.N. 33 of 2023

CODE OF ORGANIZATION AND CIVIL PROCEDURE

(CAP. 12)

Court of Appeal (Distribution of Cases) (Amendment) Rules, 2023

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 29 of the Code

of Organization and Civil Procedure, the President of Malta has made

the following rules:-

The title of these rules is the Court of Appeal (Distribution

of Cases) (Amendment) Rules, 2023 and these rules shall be read and

construed as one with the Court of Appeal (Distribution of Cases)

Rules, hereinafter referred to as "the principal rules".

Rule 2 of the principal rules shall be substituted by the

following new rule

2. The cases to be heard by the First, the Second

and the Fourth Chambers of the Court of Appeal shall be

distributed in as much as possible equal manner amongst

those chambers unless ordered otherwise by the Chief

Justice or, with regard to a particular case or cases, by one

of the chambers of the Court of Appeal.".

Immediately after rule 2 of the principal rules there shall be

added the following new rule

3. The Third Chamber of the Court of Appeal

shall continue hearing all cases pending before it at the

time of the coming into force of this rule and it shall also

hear appeals from judgments or decrees delivered by the

Chief Justice.".

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