Newsletter-21

370 NEWSLETTER 2016 decision of the RCA. The necessity of raising appellate reasons clearly before the RCA was emphasized in the ruling. Approval Decision of the CoA Should the judgment made by the RCA be found to be in lawful order, the decision of the RCA will be upheld by the CoA. Should the judgment made by the RCA contain mistakes on the application of law, identification of the parties, calculation and state- ments that do not require a re-trial, then the CoAmay give a corrective approval decision. Similarly, should the judgment have been made in lawful and procedural order, but contains mistakes on its reasoning, the CoA may give an amending corrective approval decision. As the revision of a decision is annulled in the three-tier appellate review system, the decisions are finalized upon the approval of the CoA. Reversal Decisions of the CoA Should the judgment of the RCA be found to not be in lawful order, the decision will be reversed by the CoA. In such a case, the essence of the RCAdecision affects the destination of the reverse deci- sion. In this manner, there are two types of RCA decisions that may be subject to the CoA’s review. The first one is CFI decisions that are challenged before the RCA, where it finds the CFI decisions to be in lawful order and rejects the request of an appellate review. Should the rejection decision of the RCA that is challenged before the CoA be re- versed, the file will be sent to the CFI. Hence, in such a case, the RCA that rejects the request of appellate review of a CFI decision does not evaluate the merits of the case. By doing so, it approves the legality of the CFI decision, and enables it to be subject to the review of the CoA. The second type of the CFI decisions that could be challenged before the RCA are the acceptance of appellate review requests made before the RCA. In this case, the RCA could either rule on the correc- tion of the CFI decision, or pronounce a new decision on the merits of