The Court of Appeal in Chancery was created in 1851 to hear appeals of decisions and decrees made in the

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Court. The appeals in the court were heard by the Lord Chancellor alone, or as a tripartite panel (supplemented by two Lords Justices of Appeal). Cases here could be further appealed to the House of Lords.

Previous mechanism

Prior to the creation of the Court of Appeal in Chancery, the Lord Chancellor of the Chancery Court heard appeals as part of the Chancery Court caseload.

Functions

The court was created in 1851 to hear appeals of decisions made by the Vice Chancellors and the Master of the Rolls in

Court. The appeals in the court were heard by the Lord Chancellor alone as under the previous mechanism, or as a tripartite panel (supplemented by two Lords Justices of Appeal). Cases here could be further appealed to the House of Lords.

Successor court

The Court of Appeal in Chancery became incorporated into and superseded by Court of Appeal of England and Wales, uniting the other common branches of the civil law and all of the criminal law, which was established later in 1875.

Ireland

Analogous to the English court, the Court of Appeal in Chancery in Ireland was created in 1857 to hear appeals from the

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, and also from the Encumbered Estates' Court.Chancery Appeal Court (Ireland) Act 185
19 & 20 Vict. c. 92
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Court of Appeal in Ireland The Court of Appeal in Ireland was created by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland under the Supreme Court of Judicature Act (Ireland) 1877 as the final appellate court within Irela ...

created by the Supreme Court of Judicature Act (Ireland) 1877. Sitting with the

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was a single Lord Justice of Appeal in Chancery in Ireland, Francis Blackburne until 1866 and Jonathan Christian from 1867.

References

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