Rules of Court

(1) The President shall, in consultation with not less than two nor more than five other judges of the Court selected by him, establish Rules of Court for the exercise of the original and appellate jurisdiction of the Court. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the subsection (1) of this section, Rules of Court may provide for the following, (a) regulating the sittings of the Court, the selection of judges for any purpose, the period to be observed as a vacation in the Court and the transaction of business during any such vacation; (b) regulating the pleadings, practice, procedure, execution of the process of the Court and the duties of the officers of the Court; (c) regulating matters relating to practice in the by Attorneys-at-Law, Practitioners or advocates and the representation of persons concerned in any proceedings in the Court; (d) prescribing the cases in which, and the conditions upon which, an appellant in a criminal appeal to the Court shall be entitled to be present at the hearing of the appeal; (e) providing for the summary determination of any matter which appears to the Court to be frivolous or vexatious or to have been brought for the purpose of delay; (f) regulating matters relating to the costs and the taxation thereof respecting proceedings in 19 (g) providing for the delivery of judgments in an expeditious manner; (h) prescribing forms and fees in respect of proceedings in the Court; (i) prescribing the time within which any requirement of the Rules of Court is to be complied with; (j) providing for the securing of the attendance of any person at the Court; (k) providing for the discovery or production of any document; (l) regulating, prescribing or doing any other thing which may lie regulated, prescribed or done by Rules of Court. (3) The Rules of Court shall have the force of law and shall be published in the Gazette.