COURT OF APPEAL ACT

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COURT OF APPEAL ACT(s) AND RULES

LAWS OF THE FEDERATION OF NIGERIA 

COURT OF APPEAL ACT

Chapter C37, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004 (as Amended in 1993, 2005 and 2013)

[EDITOR’S NOTE: The principal Act has been amended by the Court of Appeal (Amendment) Act, 1993; which changed the number of justices from forty one to fifty; the Court of Appeal (Amendment) Act, 2005 which further increased the number to seventy;  and the Court of Appeal (Amendment) Act 2013 which again increased the  Court’s judge membership to 90]

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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Part I: General

1. Number of Justices of the Court of Appeal.
2. Salaries and allowances of President and Justices of the Court of Appeal.
3. Precedence.
4. Retiring age.
5. Officers of the Court of Appeal.
6. Seal of the Court of Appeal.
7. Process of the Court of Appeal.
8. Practice and procedure.
9. Minimum number of Justices to constitute Court of Appeal.
10. Powers of single Justice.
11. Reserved judgments.
12. Costs.
13. Right of audience.

Part II: Appeals in Civil cases

14. Application of Part II
15. Appeal from interlocutory orders and decisions.
16. General powers of Court of Appeal.
17. Wrong ruling as to sufficiency of stamp.
18. Wrong ruling as to sufficiency of stamp.
19. Application of Part III.
20. Determination of appeal.
21. Powers of Court of Appeal

Part III: Appeals in Criminal Cases from a Court sitting as a Court of first instance

22. Suspension of order for restoration or payment of compensation or expenses.
23. in special cases.

Part IV: Appeals in Criminal cases from a Court sitting in its appellate jurisdiction

23. Application of Part IV
24. Determination of an appeal.

Part V: Procedure

25. Time for appealing.
26. Legal assistance to appellant.
27. Supplemental powers of Court of Appeal.
28. Right of appellant to be present.
29. Admission of appellant to bail and date of sentence
30. Procedure with respect to frivolous or vexatious appeals on questions of law.
31. Interpretation.

Part VI: Supplemental

32. Short title.

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COURT OF APPEAL ACT

An Act to establish the Court of Appeal as an intermediate Court between the High Court and other subordinate Courts and the Supreme Court and matters ancillary thereto.

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[Commencement                                 1^st day of October 1976]

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ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO THE LAWS OF NIGERIA (UPDATED)

LAWS MADE BY THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF NIGERIA [BY YEARS]

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