ABSTRACT
Considerations of justice, expedition and proportionality of costs should apply equally to appeals as they do to all other aspects of litigation. It is not surprising that the consequence of Sir Jeffery Bowman's review of the civil appeals system was to meld it into the Lupine landscape. The assumption now is that an appeal should not be an automatic right. The expectation that a higher authority might review your case now only extends to scrutiny for obvious injustice which mayor may not lead to 'permission' to appeal. More than one level of an appeal should not be justified save where an important point of principle or practice arises. The principle of proportionality must be applied.
