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Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishThe Popular Action (la Accion Popular) shall proceed against any act or omission by the authorities or individuals or collectives that violates or threatens to violate rights and collective interests related to public patrimony, space, security and health, the environment and other rights of a similar nature that are recognized by this Constitution. (Art. 135)
- SpanishLa Acción Popular procederá contra todo acto u omisión de las autoridades o de personas individuales o colectivas que violen o amenacen con violar derechos e intereses colectivos, relacionados con el patrimonio, el espacio, la seguridad y salubridad pública, el medio ambiente y otros de similar naturaleza reconocidos por esta Constitución. (Art. 135)
Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishThe Constitutional Court shall be an autonomous and independent state body which shall protect constitutionality and legality, as well as human and minority rights and freedoms.
The Constitutional Court decisions are final, enforceable and generally binding. (Art. 166) - Serbian CyrillicУставни суд је самосталан и независан државни орган који штити уставност и законитост и људска и мањинска права и слободе.
Одлуке Уставног суда су коначне, извршне и општеобавезујуће. (Члан 166)
Jurisdiction and Access
- English
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) Subject to the provisions of section 40(7) of this Constitution, an appeal shall lie from decisions of the High Court to the Court of Appeal as of right in the following cases:
(a) final decisions in any civil or criminal proceedings on questions as to the interpretation of this Constitution;
(b) final decisions given in exercise of the jurisdiction conferred on the High Court by section 16 of this Constitution (which relates to the enforcement of the fundamental rights and freedoms).
(2) An Appeal shall lie from final decisions of the Public Service Board of Appeal to the Court of Appeal.
(3) The Chief Justice may make rules with respect to the practice and procedure of the Court of Appeal in relation to appeals from the Public Service Board of Appeal to the Court of Appeal. (Sec. 105)
Jurisdiction and Access
- EnglishTo the same end, the laws may be deferred to the Constitutional Council before their promulgation by the President of the Republic, the President of the National Assembly or ten Deputies.
… (Art. 79) - Arabicتحقيقاً للهدف نفسه، يجوز إحالة القوانين إلى المجلس الدستوري قبل أن يصدرها رئيس الجمهورية أو رئيس المجلس الوطني أو عشرة نواب.
... (المادة 79) - FrenchAux mêmes fins, les lois peuvent être déférées au Conseil constitutionnel avant leur promulgation par le président de la République, le président de l'Assemblée nationale ou dix députés.
… (Art. 79)
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
- EnglishJurisdictional guarantees shall be governed, as a rule, by the following provisions:
1. Any person, group of persons, community, people or nation will be able to propose actions envisaged in the Constitution.
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5. All final judgments shall be referred to the Constitutional Court for their development in case law. (Art. 86) - SpanishLas garantías jurisdiccionales se regirán, en general, por las siguientes disposiciones:
1. Cualquier persona, grupo de personas, comunidad, pueblo o nacionalidad podrá proponer las acciones previstas en la Constitución.
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5. Todas las sentencias ejecutoriadas serán remitidas a la Corte Constitucional, para el desarrollo de su jurisprudencia. (Art. 86)
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) 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
- 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)