26 Facts About Supreme court

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Supreme court is the highest court within the hierarchy of courts in most legal jurisdictions.

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Broadly speaking, the decisions of a supreme court are not subject to further review by any other court.

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Idea of a supreme court owes much to the framers of the Constitution of the United States.

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In civil law jurisdictions the doctrine of stare decisis is not generally considered to apply, so the decisions of the supreme court are not necessarily binding beyond the immediate case before it; however, in practice the decisions of the supreme court usually provide a very strong precedent, or jurisprudence constante, for both itself and all lower courts.

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Judges of the Supreme Court are appointed by the President in accordance with the binding advice of the Government.

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Israel's Supreme Court is at the head of the court system in the State of Israel.

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The Supreme court has broad discretionary authority to rule on matters in which it considers it necessary to grant relief in the interests of justice, and which are not within the jurisdiction of another Supreme court or tribunal.

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The Supreme Court holds the unique power of being able to order "trial de novo" .

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The Supreme Court has a purely appellate jurisdiction and hears appeals from the Court of Appeal of New Zealand.

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The Supreme Court has the final say on matters of constitutional law, federal law or on matters of mixed federal and provincial competence.

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Supreme Court was set up in 2009; until then the House of Lords was the ultimate court in addition to being a legislative body, and the Lord Chancellor, with legislative and executive functions, was a senior judge in the House of Lords.

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However the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division is a lower court, not a supreme court.

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The Supreme Court, stands at the top of Austria's system of "ordinary courts" as the final instance in issues of private law and criminal law.

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The other branches of the German judicial system each have their own appellate systems, each topped by a high Supreme court; these are the Bundessozialgericht for matters of social security, the Bundesarbeitsgericht for employment and labour, the Bundesfinanzhof for taxation and financial issues, and the Bundesverwaltungsgericht for administrative law.

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The Supreme court system was transformed from a two level system to a three level system in 2018 with the establishment of Landsrettur.

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The Supreme court is banned from testing legislation against the constitution, pursuant to the principle of the sovereignty of the States-General; the Supreme court can test legislation against treaties such as the European Convention on Human Rights.

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Which highest Supreme court has jurisdiction in this field of law depends on the subject of the case.

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The Supreme Court is composed of 1 Chief Justice and 14 Associate Justices.

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The Supreme court sits either en banc or in divisions, depending on the nature of the case to be decided.

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In South Korea, role of highest Supreme court is divided among two constitutional judicial bodies of judicial branch.

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In Sweden, the Supreme Court, founded in 1789, and the Supreme Administrative Court, founded in 1909, respectively function as the highest courts of the land.

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The Supreme Court is the highest and final superior court of record and is empowered to exercise its powers, subject to the provisions of the Constitution.

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The Supreme Court is the highest and final superior court of record and is empowered to exercise its powers, subject to the provisions of the Constitution.

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Article 141 of the Constitution of India states that the law declared by Supreme Court is to be binding on all Courts within the territory of India.

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The Supreme Court is vested with the power of judicial review to ensure the application of the rule of law.

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The constitutional amendment to establish the Supreme court was passed in 2001, and the Supreme court itself was established in 2003.

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