[1] The High Court was continued under the 1961 constitution, which made new provisions for the appointment of judges.
The 1969 republican constitution preserved the High Court, which was now vested with "the judicial authority of Rhodesia".
For most of the High Court's existence, appeals lay to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, although the High Court refused to recognise the Privy Council's jurisdiction at some point after 1965.
An intermediate appeal lay in the Supreme Court of the Cape Colony.
After the creation of the Union of South Africa, most of the appeals which formerly lay to the Supreme Court of the Cape Colony (renamed to the Cape Provincial Division) lay to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa.
In 1955, the right to appeal to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa was replaced with a right to appeal to the Federal Supreme Court of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
The Court had a Senior Judge until 1928/1930, when his title was changed to that of Chief Justice.
Under the 1898 Order, judges were to be appointed by a secretary of state on the nomination of the British South Africa Company.
In 1923, the BASC's role in government ended: under the Southern Rhodesia Constitution Letters Patent of 1 September 1923, judges of the High Court were appointed by the Governor in Council, and could only be removed by him after joint addresses by the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly in the same session for "proved misbehaviour or incapacity".
It was reported that Sir Hugh Beadle "showed the door" to Desmond Lardner-Burke, who tried to require him to take the oath.
The first Rhodesian High Court judges were appointed from the Cape Colony.