The Supreme Court heard a greater number of cases than its counterparts in other common law states.
The Court of Appeal Act 2014 gave effect in primary legislation to the new constitutional provision.
On 29 October 2014, the Government nominated Ryan and eight ordinary judges of the Court of Appeal,[7] who were appointed by the President of Ireland on the same day.
[8] A ninth ordinary judge, John A. Edwards, was nominated on 11 November 2014,[9] and appointed on 4 December 2014.
[15][16] In September 2016, a paper in The Irish Law Times claimed "the Court of Appeal never had a prayer of solving the problem that was put to the people in this referendum, which was solving the backlog", with 1,814 cases pending at the end of 2015 compared to 2,001 cases at the start.
[17] In October 2017, the court's president said it was "coming to the point of being overwhelmed" by its backlog of cases, with about 600 added annually compared to about 320 dealt with.