Chapter II: Of the Ordinary Tribunal of Second Instance

§ 1. From the tribunal of a suffragan Bishop appeal is made to the Metropolitan.

§ 2. From causes handled in first instance before the Metropolitan, appeal is made to the local Ordinary whom the Metropolitan himself, with the Apostolic See approving, has designated once for all.

§ 3. For causes first conducted before an Archbishop who lacks suffragans, or before a local Ordinary immediately subject to the Apostolic See, appeal is made to the Metropolitan of whom in can. 285.

§ 4. Among exempt religious, for all causes conducted before the provincial Superior, the tribunal of second instance is with the supreme Moderator; for causes conducted before the local Abbot, with the supreme Moderator of the monastic Congregation; but for causes of which in can. 1579, Sec. 3, the prescription of Secs. 1, 2, 3 of this canon is to be observed.

The tribunal of appeal must be constituted in the same manner as the tribunal of first instance; and the same rules, adapted to the matter, are to be observed in the discussion of the cause.

If a cause was heard collegially in first instance, also in the grade of appeal it must be defined collegially and not by a smaller number of judges.