Section 100: Judiciary.

(1) The judicial power of Sierra Leone shall be vested in the Judiciary of which the Chief Justice shall be the Head. (2) The Judiciary shall have jurisdiction in all matters civil and criminal including matters relating to this Constitution, and such other matters in respect of which Parliament may by or under an Act of Parliament confer jurisdiction on the Judiciary. (3) In the exercise of its judicial functions the Judiciary shall be subject to this Constitution or any other law. (4) The Judicature shall consist of the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone, the Court of Appeal and the High Court of Justice which shall be the superior courts of record and which shall constitute one Superior Court of Judicature, and such other inferior and traditional Courts as Parliament may by law establish. (5) The Superior Court of Judicature shall have the power to commit for contempt to themselves and all such powers as were vested in a court of record immediately before the coming into force of this Constitution. (6) Save as may be otherwise ordered by a Court in the interests of public morality, public safety or public order, all proceedings of every Court, including the announcement of the decision of the Court, shall be held in public. (7) Nothing contained in the immediately preceding subsection shall prevent a Court from excluding from the proceedings persons, other than the parties thereto and their Counsel, to such an extent as the Court may consider necessary or expedient; a) in circumstances where publicity would prejudice the interests of justice or any interlocutory proceedings; b) in the interests of defence, public safety, public morality, the welfare of persons under the age of majority, or the protection of the private lives of persons concerned in the proceedings. (8) In the exercise of the judicial power conferred upon the Judiciary by this Constitution or any other law, the Superior Court of Judicature shall have power, in relation to any matter within its jurisdiction, to issue such orders as may be necessary to ensure the enforcement of any judgment, decree or order of the Court (9) A Judge of the Superior Court of Judicature shall not be liable to any action or suit for any matter or thing done by him in the performance of his Judicial function. (10) The Judges of the High Court shall be entitled to sit as Justices of Appeal and the Justices of Appeal shall be entitled to sit as Justices of the Supreme Court whenever so requested by the Chief Justice. (11) Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding subsections, any Justice of Appeal or any person who has held the office of Justice of Appeal may, on the request of the Chief Justice, sit and act as a judge of the High Court. (12) Every such person, while sitting and acting as a Judge of the High Court, shall have all the jurisdiction, powers and privileges of, but not otherwise be deemed to be a Judge of the High Court. (13) The provisions Of subsections (11) and (12) shall apply mutatis mutandis to a Justice of the Supreme Court sitting as a Justice of Appeal. (14) Neither the Chief Justice nor any Justice of the Court of Appeal or of the Supreme Court or Judge of the High Court may take any part in the hearing of any Appeal from his own judgment or the judgment of a bench of judges of which he was a member. (15) No office of Judge of the High Court, Justice of Appeal or Justice of the Supreme Court shall be abolished while there is a substantive holder thereof. Part II—THE SUPREME COURT Constitution of the