Key legal question
Whether the civil appeal was filed within the statutory time limit after the Easter recess
Extracted holding
No. The deadline began on the first day after the recess and expired on 11 May 2010; the filing on 12 May 2010 was late.
Extracted reasoning
Under Art. 100(1) LTF and Art. 46(1)(a) LTF, the appeal period does not run during the Easter recess, but it starts again on the first day after the recess. The older rule invoked by the appellant had been abandoned under the LTF jurisprudence.