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Senior Courts Act 2016

Senior court Judges - Eligibility for appointment

98: Eligibility for appointment as President of Court of Appeal

You could also call this:

"Who can be the boss of the Court of Appeal"

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You can be appointed the President of the Court of Appeal if you are a High Court Judge. You can also be appointed if you are made a High Court Judge at the same time as being appointed the President. If you are a Supreme Court Judge and become the President of the Court of Appeal, you will stop being a Supreme Court Judge. You might still have some work to finish from when you were a Supreme Court Judge. You can keep working on those cases to finish them, even after you stop being a Supreme Court Judge. This means you can still make decisions and give judgments on cases you were already working on.

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Part 5Senior court Judges
Eligibility for appointment

98Eligibility for appointment as President of Court of Appeal

  1. A person may only be appointed the President of the Court of Appeal if that person is—

  2. a High Court Judge; or
    1. appointed a High Court Judge at the same time as being appointed the President of the Court of Appeal.

      1. If a person who is a Supreme Court Judge is appointed the President of the Court of Appeal, the person immediately ceases to hold office as a Supreme Court Judge.

      2. A person who ceases to hold office as a Supreme Court Judge under subsection (2) may nevertheless continue in that office to determine, give judgment in, or otherwise complete a proceeding heard by that person (either alone or with others) when he or she sat in the Supreme Court.