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Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishThe following are powers of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice:
1. To exercise constitutional jurisdiction in accordance with title VIII3 of this Constitution.
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The powers indicated under (1) shall be exercised by the Constitutional Division; … (Art. 266) - SpanishSon atribuciones del Tribunal Supremo de Justicia:
1. Ejercer la jurisdicción constitucional conforme al Título VIII de esta Constitución.
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Las atribuciones señaladas en el numeral 1 serán ejercidas por la Sala Constitucional; … (Art. 266)
Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishIn hearing a case by a Court, if there arises a dispute whether the provisions contained in any law contradict or conform to the Constitution, and if no resolution has been made by the Constitutional Tribunal of the Union on the said dispute, the said Court shall stay the trial and submit its opinion to the Constitutional Tribunal of the Union in accord with the prescribed procedures and shall obtain a resolution. In respect of the said dispute, the resolution of the Constitutional Tribunal of the Union shall be applied to all cases. (Sec. 323)
- Burmeseတရားရုံးတစ်ရုံးသည် အမှုတစ်မှုကို စစ်ဆေးစီရင်ရာတွင် ဥပဒေတစ်ရပ်ရပ်ပါ ပြဌာန်းချက်သည် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေနှင့် ဆန့်ကျင်မှုရှိ- မရှိ၊ ညီညွတ်မှုရှိ- မရှိ အငြင်းပွားမှုပေါ်ပေါက်ပါက ထိုအငြင်းပွားမှုနှင့် စပ်လျဉ်း၍ နိုင်ငံတော်ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံ အခြေခံ ဥပဒေဆိုင်ရာခုံရုံးကလည်း တစ်စုံတစ်ရာ ဆုံးဖြတ်ချက် ချမှတ်ထားခြင်းမရှိသေးလျှင် အဆိုပါ တရားရုံးသည် အမှုစစ်ဆေးစီရင်ခြင်းကို ရပ်ဆိုင်းထားပြီး မိမိ၏ထင်မြင်ချက်ကို သတ်မှတ်ထားသည့် နည်းလမ်းများနှင့်အညီ နိုင်ငံတော်ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံ အခြေခံဥပဒေဆိုင်ရာ ခုံရုံးသို့တင်ပြ၍ အဆုံးအဖြတ်ရယူရမည်။ ယင်းအငြင်းမပွားမှုနှင့်စပ်လျဉ်း၍ နိုင်ငံတော်ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေဆိုင်ရာခုံရုံး၏ဆုံးဖြတ်ချက်သည် အမှုအားလုံးနှင့် သက်ဆိုင်စေရမည်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၃၂၃)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English1 Access to the Federal Supreme Court is guaranteed by law.
2 For disputes that do not relate to a legal issue of fundamental importance, the law may stipulate a threshold for the amount in dispute.
3 The law may exclude access to the Federal Supreme Court in relation to specific matters.
4 The law may provide for a simplified procedure for appeals that are manifestly unfounded. (Art. 191) - French1 La loi garantit l’accès au Tribunal fédéral.
2 Elle peut prévoir une valeur litigieuse minimale pour les contestations qui ne portent pas sur une question juridique de principe.
3 Elle peut exclure l’accès au Tribunal fédéral dans des domaines déterminés.
4 Elle peut prévoir une procédure simplifiée pour les recours manifestement infondés. (Art. 191) - German1 Das Gesetz gewährleistet den Zugang zum Bundesgericht.
2 Für Streitigkeiten, die keine Rechtsfrage von grundsätzlicher Bedeutung betreffen, kann es eine Streitwertgrenze vorsehen.
3 Für bestimmte Sachgebiete kann das Gesetz den Zugang zum Bundesgericht ausschliessen.
4 Für offensichtlich unbegründete Beschwerden kann das Gesetz ein vereinfachtes Verfahren vorsehen. (Art. 191) - Italian1 La legge garantisce la possibilità di adire il Tribunale federale.
2 Può prevedere un valore litigioso minimo per le controversie che non concernono una questione giuridica d’importanza fondamentale.
3 In determinati settori speciali, la legge può escludere la possibilità di adire il Tribunale federale.
4 La legge può prevedere una procedura semplificata per ricorsi manifestamente infondati. (Art. 191)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English(1) Members of a provincial legislature may apply to the Constitutional Court for an order declaring that all or part of a provincial Act is unconstitutional.
… (Sec. 122)
Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishThe King consults the Constitutional Council on any proposal aiming at amending the Constitution. (Art. 143)
- Khmerព្រះមហាក្សត្រ ទ្រង់ពិគ្រោះមតិក្រុមប្រឹក្សាធម្មនុញ្ញចំពោះសេចក្តីស្នើទាំងឡាយដែលសុំធ្វើវិសោធនកម្មលើរដ្ឋធម្មនុញ្ញ។ (មាត្រា ១៤៣)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English… The system of the Constitutional Court shall be:
1) to determine the conformity of laws, joint legal documents of the Majlisi Milli and Majlisi Namoyandagon, legal documents of the Majlisi Milli, the Majlisi Namoyandagon, the President, the Government, the Supreme Court, Supreme Economic Court, and other state and social authorities, as well as agreements that have not entered into force in Tajikistan to the Constitution.
2) to resolve disputes between the state power on their authority;
3) to implement other duties stipulated by the Constitution and laws.
The acts of the Constitutional Court shall be final. (Art. 89) - Russian... Полномочия Конституционного суда:
1) определение соответствия законов, совместных нормативных правовых актов Маджлиси милли и Маджлиси намояндагон, Президента, Правительства, Верховного Суда, Высшего экономического суда и других государственных и общественных органов, а также не вступивших в законную силу договоров Таджикистана Конституции;
2) разрешение споров между государственными органами относительно их компетенции;
3) исполнение других полномочий, определяемых Конституцией и законами.
Акты Конституционного суда являются окончательным. (Статья 89) - Tajik... Салоҳияти Суди конститутсионӣ:
1) муайян намудани мувофиѕати ѕонуніо, санадіои меъёрии іуѕуѕии якїояи Маїлиси миллњ ва Маїлиси намояндагон, Маїлиси миллњ, Маїлиси намояндагон. Президент, Іукумат, Суди Олњ, Суди Олии иѕтисодњ ва дигар маѕомоти давлатию їамъиятњ, шартномаіои ба ѕувваи ѕонун надаромадаи Тоїикистон ба Конститутсия;
2) ҳалли баҳсҳои байни мақомоти давлатӣ доир ба салоҳияти онҳо;
3) иҷрои ваколатҳои дигаре, ки Конститутсия ва қонунҳо муайян кардаанд.
Санадҳои Суди конститутсионӣ қатъист (Моддаи 89)
Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishThe President or a Minister may, in accordance with the approval of the Cabinet, refer to the Supreme Court for its opinion any question concerning the interpretation or effect of any provision of this Constitution which has arisen or appears to the Cabinet likely to arise, and the Supreme Court shall pronounce in open court its opinion on the question. (Art. 55)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English1. Judicial authority vests in the courts and shall be exercised by the courts in accordance with this Constitution and other laws.
2. The courts shall perform the following judicial functions:
a. hear civil and criminal matters; and
b. hear matters relating to, and in respect of, this Constitution.
… (Art. 119)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English
The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Uzbekistan shall:
1) define the compliance of the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan, laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan and resolutions of the chambers of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan, decrees, resolutions and orders of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, resolutions of the government, decisions of local bodies of state authority, interstate treaties and other obligations of the Republic of Uzbekistan;
2) conform the compliance of the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan with the constitutional laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan — until they are signed by the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, international treaties of the Republic of Uzbekistan — until they are signed by the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan of the laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan on their ratification;
3) conform the compliance of the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan with issues to be submitted to the referendum;
4) conform the compliance of the Constitution of the Republic of Karakalpakstan to the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan, laws of the Republic of Karakalpakstan — to laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan;
5) interpret the norms of the Constitution and laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan;
6) consider the appeal of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Uzbekistan, initiated by the courts, on compliance of the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan, normative-legal acts subjects to application in concrete cases;
7) based on summarizing practices of the constitutional legal procedures, represent annually the information on a status of constitutional lawfulness to the Chambers of of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan;
8) hear other cases relating to its competence in accordance with the Constitution and laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
The citizens and legal entities shall have the right to apply to the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Uzbekistan with a complaint about the compliance with the Constitution of the law applied to them by the court in a specific case, the consideration of which in court has been completed, and if all other remedies have been exhausted.
… (Art. 133) - Uzbek
O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Konstitutsiyaviy sudi:
1) O‘zbekiston Respublikasi qonunlarining va O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Oliy Majlisi palatalari qarorlarining, O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Prezidenti farmonlari, qarorlari va farmoyishlarining, hukumat, mahalliy davlat hokimiyati organlari qarorlarining, O‘zbekiston Respublikasi davlatlararo shartnomaviy va boshqa majburiyatlarining O‘zbekiston Respublikasining Konstitutsiyasiga muvofiqligini aniqlaydi;
2) O‘zbekiston Respublikasining Prezidenti tomonidan imzolanguniga qadar — O‘zbekiston Respublikasi konstitutsiyaviy qonunlarining, ratifikatsiya qilish to‘g‘risidagi O‘zbekiston Respublikasi qonunlari O‘zbekiston Respublikasining Prezidenti tomonidan imzolanguniga qadar — O‘zbekiston Respublikasi xalqaro shartnomalarining O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Konstitutsiyasiga muvofiqligini aniqlaydi;
3) referendumga chiqarilayotgan masalalarning O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Konstitutsiyasiga muvofiqligi to‘g‘risida xulosa beradi;
4) Qoraqalpog‘iston Respublikasi Konstitutsiyasining O‘zbekiston Respublikasining Konstitutsiyasiga, Qoraqalpog‘iston Respublikasi qonunlarining O‘zbekiston Respublikasining qonunlariga muvofiqligi to‘g‘risida xulosa beradi;
5) O‘zbekiston Respublikasining Konstitutsiyasi va qonunlari normalariga sharh beradi;
6) O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Oliy sudining muayyan ishda qo‘llanilishi lozim bo‘lgan normativ-huquqiy hujjatlarning O‘zbekiston Respublikasining Konstitutsiyasiga muvofiqligi to‘g‘risida sudlar tashabbusi bilan kiritilgan murojaatini ko‘rib chiqadi;
7) konstitutsiyaviy sudlov ishlarini yuritish amaliyotini umumlashtirish natijalari yuzasidan har yili O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Oliy Majlisi palatalariga va O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Prezidentiga mamlakatdagi konstitutsiyaviy qonuniylikning holati to‘g‘risida axborot taqdim etadi;
8) O‘zbekiston Respublikasining Konstitutsiyasi va qonunlari bilan berilgan vakolati doirasida boshqa ishlarni ko‘rib chiqadi.
Fuqarolar va yuridik shaxslar, agar sud orqali himoya qilishning boshqa barcha vositalaridan foydalanib bo‘lingan bo‘lsa, sudda ko‘rib chiqilishi tugallangan muayyan ishda sud tomonidan o‘ziga nisbatan qo‘llanilgan qonunning Konstitutsiyaga muvofiqligi to‘g‘risidagi shikoyat bilan O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Konstitutsiyaviy sudiga murojaat qilishga haqli.
… (133-modda)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English
Justice shall be administered by courts on the basis of the Constitution and other normative legal acts adopted in accordance with it.
If, during the hearing of a case the court has doubts as to the constitutionality of a legal act to be applied, it shall, before issuing a judgment, raise before the Constitutional Court the issue of reviewing the constitutionality of the legal act in question, in accordance with the procedure established by law. (Art. 112) - Belarusian
Суды ажыццяўляюць правасуддзе на падставе Канстытуцыі і прынятых у адпаведнасці з ёй іншых нарматыўных прававых актаў.
Калі пры разглядзе канкрэтнай справы ў суда ўзнікнуць сумненні ў канстытуцыйнасці нарматыўнага прававога акта, які падлягае прымяненню, суд да вынясення судовай пастановы ставіць ва ўстаноўленым законам парадку перад Канстытуцыйным Судом пытанне аб праверцы канстытуцыйнасці гэтага нарматыўнага прававога акта. (Артыкул 112) - Russian
Суды осуществляют правосудие на основании Конституции и принятых в соответствии с ней иных нормативных правовых актов.
Если при рассмотрении конкретного дела у суда возникнут сомнения в конституционности нормативного правового акта, подлежащего применению, суд до вынесения судебного постановления ставит в установленном законом порядке перед Конституционным Судом вопрос о проверке конституционности данного нормативного правового акта. (Статья 112)