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Deputy
President
panels
that
determine
hear
the
applications
composition
for
of
permission
the
to
appeal and full hearings. Second, the President may
request
senior
appellate
Judges
from
England
and
Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to serve as an
acting Judge’ in the Court on a temporary basis. The
President may also ask members of a supplementary
panel of retired appellate Judges to sit. Third, the
President is responsible for making the Courts Rules.
In practice, the Court’s first President delegated
much of this task to the Deputy President. Fourth,
the
President
has
an
important
role
relating
to
complaints and discipline.’ (Ibid P-198)
On the question of judicial accountability and
judicial discipline, it is said that “the court is
largely
self-regulating.
The
Constitutional
Reform
Act in UK provides that the Justices hold office
during good behaviour, but may be removed from it on
the address of both Houses of Parliament. Given that
no Judge has been removed by Parliament since 1830,
this is a measure of last resort that is unlikely to
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