Part I Procedure etc. in Civil Courts

Appeals

I17 Appeals to Court of Appeal.

1

Section 18 of the M1F1Senior Courts Act 1981 (restrictions on appeals to Court of Appeal) shall be amended as follows.

2

In subsection (1), paragraphs (e), (f) and (h) (which deal with cases in which leave is required for an appeal) shall be omitted.

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8 Powers of Court of Appeal to award damages.

1

In this section “case” means any case where the Court of Appeal has power to order a new trial on the ground that damages awarded by a jury are excessive or inadequate.

2

Rules of court may provide for the Court of Appeal, in such classes of case as may be specified in the rules, to have power, in place of ordering a new trial, to substitute for the sum awarded by the jury such sum as appears to the court to be proper.

3

This section is not to be read as prejudicing in any way any other power to make rules of court.