Referendum a bid to clear Supreme Court logjam
The vast majority of the Supreme Court's workload involves appeals from routine civil cases, writes James McDermott.
The absence of a Court of Appeal for civil cases is the most obvious anomaly in our court structure. On the criminal side, a case initially heard in the Central Criminal Court can be appealed to the Court of Criminal Appeal, with leave to appeal further to the Supreme Court only being granted in cases involving points of law of exceptional public importance. Such is the high threshold for this further appeal in ...
