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Jurisdiction and Access
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The Constitutional Court is the judge of the constitutionality of the laws and of the regularity of the elections. It guarantees the fundamental rights of the human person and the public freedoms. It is the regulatory organ of the functioning of the institutions and of the activity of the public powers.
... (Art. 83)3 - French
La Cour constitutionnelle est la plus haute juridiction de l'État en matière constitutionnelle. Elle est juge de la constitutionnalité des lois et de la régularité des élections. Elle garantit les droits fondamentaux de la personne humaine et les libertés publiques. Elle est l’organe régulateur du fonctionnement des institutions et de l’activité des pouvoirs publics.
... (Art. 83)
Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishThe Supreme Court of Justice will have a Constitutional Chamber [Sala de lo Constitucional], to which it will correspond to take cognizance of and resolve the complaints [demandas] of unconstitutionality of the laws, decrees and regulations, the processes of amparo, [and] habeas corpus, [the] conflicts [controversias] between the Legislative Organ and [the] Executive Organ to which Article 138 refers, and [the] causes mentioned in the 7th attribution of Article 182 of this Constitution.
… (Art. 174) - SpanishLa Corte Suprema de Justicia tendrá una Sala de lo Constitucional, a la cual corresponderá conocer y resolverlas demandas de inconstitucionalidad de las leyes, decretos y reglamentos, los procesos de amparo, el habeas corpus, las controversias entre el Órgano Legislativo y el Órgano Ejecutivo a que se refiere el Art. 138 y las causas mencionadas en la atribución 7a. del Art. 182 de esta Constitución.
… (Art. 174)
Jurisdiction and Access
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1. The Constitutional Court (Tsets) of Mongolia shall be an organ exercising supreme supervision over the enforcement of the Constitution, making judgement on the violation of its provisions, and resolving constitutional disputes. It shall be the guarantee for the strict observance of the Constitution.
… (Art. 64) - Mongolian
1. Монгол Улсын Үндсэн хуулийн цэц бол Үндсэн хуулийн биелэлтэд дээд хяналт тавих, түүний заалтыг зөрчсөн тухай дүгнэлт гаргах, маргааныг магадлан шийдвэрлэх бүрэн эрх бүхий байгууллага, Үндсэн хуулийг чандлан сахиулах баталгаа мөн.
… (Жаран дөрөвдүгээр зүйл)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English(1) The Constitutional Court has jurisdiction over the whole Spanish territory and is entitled to hear:
a) Appeals against the alleged unconstitutionality of acts and statutes having the force of an act. ...
b) Individual appeals for protection (recursos de amparo) against violation of the rights and liberties contained in section 53(2) of the Constitution, in the circumstances and manner to be laid down by law.
c) Conflicts of jurisdiction between the State and the Autonomous Communities or between the Autonomous Communities themselves.
d) Other matters assigned to it by the Constitution or by organic acts.
(2) The Government may appeal to the Constitutional Court against provisions and resolutions adopted by the bodies of the Autonomous Communities, which shall bring about the suspension of the contested provisions or resolutions, but the Court must either ratify or lift the suspension, as the case may be, within a period of not more than five months. (Sec. 161) - Spanish1. El Tribunal Constitucional tiene jurisdicción en todo el territorio español y es competente para conocer:
a) Del recurso de inconstitucionalidad contra leyes y disposiciones normativas con fuerza de ley. …
b) Del recurso de amparo por violación de los derechos y libertades referidos en el artículo 53.2, de esta Constitución, en los casos y formas que la ley establezca.
c) De los conflictos de competencia entre el Estado y las Comunidades Autónomas o de los de éstas entre sí.
d) De las demás materias que le atribuyan la Constitución o las leyes orgánicas.
2. El Gobierno podrá impugnar ante el Tribunal Constitucional las disposiciones y resoluciones adoptadas por los órganos de las Comunidades Autónomas. La impugnación producirá la suspensión de la disposición o resolución recurrida, pero el Tribunal, en su caso, deberá ratificarla o levantarla en un plazo no superior a cinco meses. (Art. 161)
Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishThe following persons and organizations shall have the right to submit matters directly to obtain the interpretation, resolution and opinion of the Constitutional Tribunal of the Union :
(a) the President;
(b) the Speaker of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw;
(c) the Speaker of the Pyithu Hluttaw;
(d) the Speaker of the Amyotha Hluttaw;
(e) the Chief Justice of the Union;
(f) the Chairperson of the Union Election Commission. (Sec. 325) - Burmeseဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေဆိုင်ရာခုံရုံး၏ အဓိပ္ပာယ်ဖွင့်ဆိုချက်၊ ဆုံးဖြတ်ချက်၊ သဘောထားရယူရန် ကိစ္စများကို အောက်ဖော်ပြပါပုဂ္ဂိုလ်များသည် နိုင်ငံတော်ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံ အခြေခံဥပဒေဆိုင်ရာခုံရုံးသို့ တိုက်ရိုက်တင်သွင်းခွင့်ရှိသည်
(က) နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတ၊
(ခ) ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်နာယက၊
(ဂ) ပြည့်သူလွှတ်တော်ဥက္ကဌ၊
(ဃ) အမျိုးသားလွှတ်တော်ဥက္ကဌ၊
(င) ပြည်ထောင်စုတရားသူကြီးချုပ်၊
(စ) ပြည်ထောင်စုရွေးကောက်ပွဲ ကော်မရှင်ဥက္ကဌ။ (ပုဒ်မ-၃၂၅)
Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishThe Constitutional Court of Ukraine decides on compliance of laws of Ukraine with the Constitution of Ukraine and, in cases prescribed by this Constitution, of other acts, provides official interpretation of the Constitution of Ukraine as well as exercises other authority in accordance with this Constitution.
The Constitutional Court of Ukraine acts on the basis of the principles of the rule of law, independence, collegiality, transparency, reasonableness and binding nature of its decisions and opinions. (Art. 147) - UkrainianКонституційний Суд України вирішує питання про відповідність Конституції України законів України та у передбачених цією Конституцією випадках інших актів, здійснює офіційне тлумачення Конституції України, а також інші повноваження відповідно до цієї Конституції.
Діяльність Конституційного Суду України ґрунтується на принципах верховенства права, незалежності, колегіальності, гласності, обґрунтованості та обов’язковості ухвалених ним рішень i висновків. (Стаття 147)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English1. In addition to the right of appeal accorded by section 47 of this Constitution, an appeal shall lie as of right to the Court of Appeal from decisions of the High Court in the following cases, that is to say:
a. subject to section 69 of this Constitution, final decisions in any civil or criminal proceedings on questions as to the interpretation of this Constitution, including any such decision made on a reference to the High Court under section 128;
b. final decisions of the High Court in the determination of any question in respect of which a right of access to the High Court is guaranteed by section 17 of this Constitution and final decisions of the High Court under section 22 of this Constitution.
… (Sec. 129)
Jurisdiction and Access
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VIII. 3. The restriction of the human rights recognized by this Constitution; the principles consecrated in Article 40 of it; electoral matters; the revenues and expenditures of the State; [and] national security and the organization, functioning and discipline of the permanent Armed Force[,] may not be the object of popular consultation. The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation will decide [resolverá], prior to the convocation that the Congress of the Union realizes, concerning the constitutionality of the matter of the consultation;
… (Art. 35) - Spanish…
VIII. 3o. No podrán ser objeto de consulta popular la restricción de los derechos humanos reconocidos por esta Constitución; los principios consagrados en el artículo 40 de la misma; la materia electoral; los ingresos y gastos del Estado; la seguridad nacional y la organización, funcionamiento y disciplina de la Fuerza Armada permanente. La Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación resolverá, previo a la convocatoria que realice el Congreso de la Unión, sobre la constitucionalidad de la materia de la consulta;
… (Art. 35)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English(1) The Supreme Court shall have sole and exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine any question relating to the interpretation of the Constitution and accordingly, whenever any such question arises in the course of any proceedings in any other court or tribunal or other institution empowered by law to administer justice or to exercise judicial or quasi-judicial functions, such question shall forthwith be referred to the Supreme Court for determination. The Supreme Court may direct that further proceedings be stayed pending the determination of such question.
… (Art. 125) - Sinhala(1) ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාව අර්ථ නිරූපණය කිරීම පිළිබඳ යම් ප්රශ්නයක් විභාග කොට තීරණය කිරීම සඳහා තනි හා අනන්ය අධිකරණ බලය ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයට ඇත්තේ ය. ඒ අනුව වෙනත් යම් අධිකරණයක හෝ විනිශ්චය අධිකාරයක හෝ යුක්තිය පසිඳලීම සඳහා හෝ අධිකරණ කාර්ය නැතහොත් අර්ධ අධිකරණ කාර්ය ඉටු කිරීම සඳහා හෝ නීතියෙන් බලය පැවරී ඇති වෙනත් යම් ආයතනයක හෝ නඩු කටයුතුවල දී එවැනි යම් ප්රශ්නයක් උද්ගත වුවහොත් ඒ ප්රශ්නය තීරණය කිරීම සඳහා නොපමාව ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය වෙත යොමු කළ යුත්තේ ය. ඒ ප්රශ්නය සම්බන්ධයෙන් තීරණයක් කරන තෙක් වැඩිදුර නඩු කටයුතු අත්හිටුවන ලෙස ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය විසින් විධාන කළ හැක්කේ ය. ... (125 වැනි වගන්තිය)
Jurisdiction and Access
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(2) At any time when the judges of the Supreme Court and of the High Court number 4 or more, any judge of the High Court may convene a bench of 3 judges to decide any case in the High Court's jurisdiction, if the convening judge has determined that the case involves either a substantial question of law as to the interpretation or effect of a provision of this Constitution or any other matter of public importance; and, if an insufficient number of judges of the High Court is available, then without prejudice to the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court in relation to that case, the remaining members of the bench shall be judges of the Supreme Court. (Art. VI, Sec. 3)