Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

PART V
TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

22.   Pending proceedings

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    (1)   Any proceedings originating in any of the States and pending immediately before the prescribed date in the British Caribbean Court of Appeal or in the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeal of the Windward Islands and Leeward Islands may be continued and concluded on or after that date—

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      (a)     in the case of proceedings pending in the British Caribbean Court of Appeal, in the Court of Appeal: and

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      (b)     in the case of proceedings pending in the Supreme Court or the Court of Appeal of the Windward Islands and Leeward Islands, in the High Court.

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    (2)   An appeal shall lie to the Court of Appeal on and after the prescribed date from any judgment of the Supreme Court of the Windward Islands and Leeward Islands given before the prescribed date in any proceedings originating in any of the States as if it were a judgment of the High Court.

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    (3)   Any judgment of the British Caribbean Court of Appeal that was given but not satisfied before the prescribed date in any proceedings originating in any of the States may be enforced on or after the prescribed date as if it were a judgement of the Court of Appeal and any such judgment of the Court of Appeal or the High Court of the Windward Islands and Leeward Islands may be so enforced as if it were a judgment of the High Court.

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    (4)   Until such time as other provision is made in that behalf by any law in force in a State, an appeal shall lie to the High Court from the decision of a magistrate in that State in any case in which an appeal would have lain to the Court of Appeal of the Windward Islands and Leeward Islands if the Order of 1959 had not been revoked.