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Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishA constitutional appeal may be lodged against individual general acts or actions performed by state bodies or organizations exercising delegated public powers which violate or deny human or minority rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution, if other legal remedies for their protection have already been applied or not specified. (Art. 170)
- Serbian CyrillicУставна жалба се може изјавити против појединачних аката или радњи државних органа или организација којима су поверена јавна овлашћења, а којима се повређују или ускраћују људска или мањинска права и слободе зајемчене Уставом, ако су исцрпљена или нису предвиђена друга правна средства за њихову заштиту. (Члан 170)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English(1) A person who alleges that—
(a) any Act of the National Assembly or anything done under the authority of an Act of the National Assembly; or
(b) any act or omission of any person or authority, is inconsistent with or is in contravention of a provision of this Constitution, may bring an action in a court of competent jurisdiction for a declaration to that effect.
… (Sec. 5)
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
- 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…
2. … The Supreme Court, pursuant to its power of judicial review, is empowered to declare any inconsistent laws unconstitutional. (Art. 2)
Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishLaws may be declared unconstitutional because of their form or content.
The Supreme Court of Justice has original and exclusive jurisdiction over hearing and deciding such matters and must render its decisions in accordance with the requirements governing final judgments. (Art. 184) - SpanishLas leyes podrán ser declaradas inconstitucionales por razón de forma o de contenido.
A la Corte Suprema de Justicia le compete el conocimiento y la resolución originaria y exclusiva en la materia, y deberá pronunciarse con los requisitos de las sentencias definitivas. (Art. 184)
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
- EnglishWhen a case in a state or local court involves a substantial question requiring the interpretation of the Constitution, national law, or a treaty, on application of a party or on its own motion the court shall certify the question to the appellate division of the Supreme Court. The appellate division of the Supreme Court may decide on the case or remand it for further proceedings. (Art. XI, Sec. 8)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English
The Constitutional Court is competent to take cognizance of a pleading [exception] of unconstitutionality raised in the course of a process, when it is maintained by one of the parties that the law on which the issue of the litigation depends, infringes the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution.
An organic law establishes the conditions and modalities of application of this Article. (Art. 133) - Arabic
تختص المحكمة الدستورية بالنظر في كل دفع متعلق بعدم دستورية قانون، أثير أثناء النظر في قضية، وذلك إذا دفع أحد الأطراف بأن القانون، الذي سيطبق في النزاع، يمس بالحقوق وبالحريات التي يضمنها الدستور.
يحدد قانون تنظيمي شروط وإجراءات تطبيق هذا الفصل. (الفصل 133)