Saturday, October 10th, 2026, 3:53 pm
A Glimpse at the Court of Appeal Civil Division
Filed under: Learning as I go along
ut of both interest and necessity (not mere curiosity), lately I’ve been studying how the Court of Appeal operates, seeing it is split into just two areas. For the Court of Appeal Civil Division there is not a long queue of cases (compared to courts below it) and on Monday, for instance, only one Judgment will be issued (Osei-Bonsu v Secretary of State for the Home Department) with no hearings or any of the ordinary things. Three judges will be present: Lord Justice Males, Lady Justice Elisabeth Laing and Lady Justice Whipple.
From what I have seen, there are typically if not always 3 judges in such cases. In the past I covered cases where 7 judges issued a ruling. It was about the EPO. The EPO’s management lost.
One upside of the legal system here (despite the considerable cost) is that reporters do not get killed with impunity, people aren’t incarcerated without proper due process and access to justice, sites/papers/articles don’t get deplatformed just because of certified lunatics who try to blackmail webhosts.
I study the law (and protocols) as a Litigant in Person who needs to know how to manage oneself, as lawyers are very expensive. The knowledge gained does help me compose future articles.
