Chief Justice discovers 70 ‘idle’ Court of Appeal cases Article by May 7, 2021 Scores of Court of Appeal cases were found lying idle when Chief Justice Sir Patterson Cheltenham assumed office. The revelation was prompted when Sir Patterson, joined by Justices Francis Belle and Margaret Reifer for a case management conference on a civil lawsuit, chided the lawyers for the appellant who filed an appeal and “nothing else” and were also a no-show. They also reportedly failed to notify counsel for the respondents. The development did not sit well with the Chief Justice who revealed that the appellate court had been sifting through the numerous idle cases.