Opponents of the new Court of Appeal back in 2013 claimed it would just add another layer to the justice system without serving any greater function than easing the bottleneck of cases then facing the Supreme Court. They lost the argument. The referendum amendment required to set up the new appellate court passed comfortably, appeal times were slashed as a result, and the status of the Supreme Court became closer to that of a purely constitutional court. All well and good. However, the impact of the new appellate court on the High Court was not so well considered. While hardly…

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