Sentence examples for highest judicial authority from inspiring English sources

In Zanzibar the highest judicial authority is the Supreme Council.

The ensi, the lawgiver and the highest judicial authority in the Sumerian city-state, was responsible for order.

The Supreme Court is the highest judicial authority and includes courts of civil appeal and criminal appeal.

A spokesman for the Justice Ministry said it was still deciding whether to appeal to the Constitutional Court, the country's highest judicial authority.

The Supreme Court of Kosovo is the highest judicial authority for all matters except constitutional questions, which are decided by the Constitutional Court.

Since 1819 the judicial system has been based on that of France; since 1962 the highest judicial authority has been the Supreme Tribunal.

Will Ecuador's highest judicial authorities go the same way?

For the FPÖ, all the conditions came together in order to reach the highest judicial authorities: it proved itself (despite controversy) in the administrative management of Carinthia and Burgenland as part of a coalition, it has maintained its electoral growth during 2016 and all the political parties are told to position themselves with respect to it.

While coincidental, the two events underscored what some critics of the United Nations have called an institutional culture of privilege and exceptionalism in an organization that basically regulates itself and is not necessarily answerable to any higher judicial authority.

Does that not nullify Winston Churchill's basic vision for the court, to hold states to account by a higher judicial authority upholding a European-wide set of values, inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

This includes for example the right to privacy, the right to legal aid and other type of assistance and the right to challenge any decision with a higher judicial authority.