Courts and Civil law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2025
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Number of ordinary judges of Court of Appeal | ||
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4. Section 1A of the Courts (Establishment and Constitution) Act 1961 is amended— | ||
(a) in subsection (2), by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (b): | ||
“(b) subject to subsection (2A), not more than 21 ordinary judges, each of whom shall be styled ‘Breitheamh den Chúirt Achomhairc’ (‘Judge of the Court of Appeal’).”, | ||
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(b) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (2): | ||
“(2A) The Government, on the request of the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration made after consultation with the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and where they are of the opinion that, having regard to the volume of business to be transacted in the Court of Appeal or to any other reason arising from the state of business in that Court, and to the need to ensure the efficient transaction of business in that Court, it is necessary in the interests of the administration of justice to do so, may by order provide that the number of ordinary judges of the Court of Appeal otherwise provided for under any enactment for the time being in force may be exceeded by one.”. |