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Section 107: Constitution of Court of Appeal.
Status not yet checkedREPEALED THE CONSTITUTION OF SIERRA LEONE 1978-12, Sierra Leone
(1) The Court of Appeal shall consist ofa) the Chief Justice;
b) not less than five Justices of the Court of Appeal; and
c) such other Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature as the Chief Justice may, for the determination of any
particular cause or matter by writing under his hand, request to sit in the Court of Appeal for such period as
the Chief Justice may specify or until the request is withdrawn.
(2) The Court of Appeal shall be duly constituted by any three Justices thereof and when so constituted the most
senior of such Justices shall preside.
(3) Subject to the provisions of subsections (1) and (2) of Section 101 of this Constitution, the Court of Appeal shall
be bound by its own previous decisions and all Courts inferior to the Court of Appeal shall be bound to follow the
decisions of the Court of Appeal on questions of law.
(4) The Chief Justice may create such Divisions of the Court of Appeal as he may consider necessary.
a) consisting of such number of Justices as may be assigned thereto by the Chief Justice,
b) sitting at such places in Sierra Leone as the Chief Justice may, by constitutional instrument, determine; and
c) presided over by the most senior of the Justices of the Court of Appeal constituting the Court.
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