“…The restriction on appeals to the Court of Appeal contained in s.18 SCA was considered in R (McAtee) v Secretary of State for Justice [2018] EWCA Civ 2851, [2019] 1 WLR…”
“…d, proceeding directly to the Supreme Court just because of s.18(1) of the 1981 Act); and in the Court of Appeal in R (McAtee) v Secretary of State for Justice [2018] EWCA Civ 2851. Moreover, such decisions also dispose of somewhat “tangled”, and in truth sometimes conflicting, decisions of courts on earlier occasions: see the observation…”