175 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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