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Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishThe Constitutional Court is the court with the specific competence to administer justice in matters of a constitutional-law nature. (Art. 221)
- PortugueseO Tribunal Constitucional é o tribunal ao qual compete especificamente administrar a justiça em matérias de natureza jurídico-constitucional. (Art. 221)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English1. Any question as to the interpretation of this Constitution shall be determined by the Court of Appeal sitting as the Constitutional Court.
2. When sitting as a Constitutional Court, the Court of Appeal shall consist of a bench of five members of that Court.
3. A person who alleges that-
a. an Act of Parliament or any other law or anything in or done under the authority of any law; or
b. any act or omission by any person or authority,
is inconsistent with or in contravention of a provision of this Constitution, may petition the Constitutional Court for a declaration to that effect, and for redress where appropriate.
4. Where upon determination of the petition under clause (3) of this article the Constitutional Court considers that there is need for redress in addition to the declaration sought, the Constitutional Court may-
a. grant an order of redress; or
b. refer the matter to the High Court to investigate and determine the appropriate redress.
5. Where any question as to the interpretation of this Constitution arises in any proceedings in a court of law other than a Field Court Martial, the Court-
a. may, if it is of the opinion that the question involves a substantial question of law; and
b. shall, if any party to the proceedings requests it to do so,
refer the question to the constitutional court for decision in accordance with clause (1) of this article.
6. Where any question is referred to the constitutional court under clause (5) of this article, the constitutional court shall give its decision on the question, and the court in which the question arises shall dispose of the case in accordance with that decision.
… (Art. 137)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English1. The Constitution Court shall adjudicate the following matters:
1. The constitutionality of a law upon the request of the courts.
2. Impeachment;
3. Dissolution of a political party;
4. Disputes about the jurisdictions between State agencies, between State agencies and local governments and between local governments; and
5. Petitions relating to the Constitution as prescribed by law.
… (Art. 111) - Korean①헌법재판소는 다음 사항을 관장한다.
1. 법원의 제청에 의한 법률의 위헌여부 심판
2. 탄핵의 심판
3. 정당의 해산 심판
4. 국가기관 상호간, 국가기관과 지방자치단체간 및 지방자치단체 상호간의 권한쟁의에 관한 심판
5. 법률이 정하는 헌법소원에 관한 심판
... (제111조)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English
The Constitutional Court shall be an independent judicial authority vested with the mandate to protect the integrity of constitutional principles. (Art. 124)
- Slovak
Ústavný súd Slovenskej republiky je nezávislým súdnym orgánom ochrany ústavnosti. (Čl. 124)
Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishEvery person or collective affected by a juridical norm contrary to the Constitution shall have the right to present an Action for Unconstitutionality (Accion de Inconstitucionalidad), pursuant to the procedures established by law. (Art. 132)
- SpanishToda persona individual o colectiva afectada por una norma jurídica contraria a la Constitución tendrá derecho a presentar la Acción de Inconstitucionalidad, de acuerdo con los procedimientos establecidos por la ley. (Art. 132)
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
- English(1) Subject to the provisions of sections 22(5), 38(6), 42(8), 57(7), 115(8), 118(3) and 121(10) of this Constitution, any person who alleges that any provision of this Constitution (other than a provision of Chapter I3 thereof) has been or is being contravened may, if he has a relevant interest, apply to the High Court for a declaration and for relief under this section.
(2) The High Court shall have jurisdiction on an application made under this section to determine whether any provision of this Constitution (other than a provision of Chapter I thereof) has been or is being contravened and to make a declaration accordingly.
(3) Where the High Court makes a declaration under this section that a provision of this Constitution has been or is being contravened and the person on whose application the declaration is made has also applied for relief, the High Court may grant to that person such remedy as its considers appropriate, being a remedy available generally under the law of Dominica in proceedings in the High Court.
(4) The Chief Justice may make rules with respect to the practice and procedure of the High Court in relation to the jurisdiction and powers conferred on the Court by or under this section, including provision with respect to the time within which any application under this section may be made.
(5) A person shall be regarded as having a relevant interest for the purpose of an application under this section only if the contravention of this Constitution alleged by him is such as to affect his interests.
(6) The right conferred on a person by this section to apply for a declaration and relief in respect of an alleged contravention of this Constitution shall be in addition to any other action in respect of the same matter that may be available to that person under any other enactment or any rule of law.
(7) Nothing in this section shall confer jurisdiction on the High Court to hear or determine any such question as is referred to in section 40 of this Constitution. (Sec. 103)
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
- English
Subject to this Constitution’s express limitations on the judicial power,
1. the Attorney-General acting in the name of the people of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and all persons directly affected by an alleged violation of this Constitution, whether by private individuals or public officials, shall have standing to complain of such violation in a case or controversy that is the subject of an appropriate judicial proceeding;
2. any court of general jurisdiction, resolving a case or controversy implicating a provision of this Constitution, shall have power to make all orders necessary and appropriate to secure full compliance with the provision and full enjoyment of its benefits;
… (Art. I, Sec. 4)