The position of the Court of Appeal under the 1980 Constitution

As a preliminary comment, it should be noted that the 1980 Constitution is widely acknowledged to have been brought in by a government that took power in massively fraudulent elections. The Constitution itself was approved in a referendum also widely acknowledged to have been a massive fraud. The architect of the Constitution during this process was Dr M Shahabuddeen, who was later elected to the International Court of Justice.