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3 unusual facts about Constitutional court


Gia Getsadze

During this period he participated in drafting of law on Constitutional court of Georgia.

Ivan Mihailov

The Constitutional court of the Republic of Macedonia banned a pro-Bulgarian organization bearing the name of Ivan Mihailov as separatist.

Nicola Cosentino

pressuring the Constitutional court to consider as legitimate the Lodo Alfano (a law which would have saved then prime minister Berlusconi from several of his trials, and which was finally declared invalid)


Alexkor v Richtersveld Community

Alexkor v Richtersveld Community, decided by the Constitutional Court in 2001, is an important case in South African law, with a particular bearing on the law of property and the use of customary law.

Arbitration Commission of the Peace Conference on Yugoslavia

Robert Badinter was appointed to President of the five-member Commission consisting of presidents of Constitutional Courts in the EEC.

Bashkim Dedja

He is enacted by the President Bamir Topi to head the Constitutional Court, and has been voted by the Parliament as a member of this court since 2009.

Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu

On 5 April 2007, the Constitutional Court decided "The Romanian President's refusal to name a member of Government at the proposal of Prime Minister started a jurisdictional conflict of a constitutional nature.... The Romanian President has no right to veto, but he can ask the Prime Minister to renounce his proposal, if he observes that the proposed person does not meet the legal conditions required to be a member of Government".

Chief Justice of South Africa

The position of Chief Justice as it stands today was created in 2001 by the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa, as an amalgamation of two previous high-ranking judicial positions of Chief Justice and President of the Constitutional Court.

Clemente Mastella

Mastella's decision occurred a few days after a decision by the Constitutional Court which confirmed that there would be a referendum to modify the electoral system.

Great Anatolia Party

The Motherland Party protested against these cases and litigated to the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Electoral Council.

Irene Grootboom

Irene Grootboom (c. 1969 – 2008) was a South African housing rights activist best known for her victory before the Constitutional Court in 2000.

Jadranka Kosor

The Constitutional Court ultimately declared the referendum issue moot, but ordered the government not to subject any changes to the labor law in the following year.

Konstantine Vardzelashvili

Konstantine Vardzelashvili (born 26 July 1972 in Tbilisi) is Vice-President of the Constitutional Court of Georgia.

Norica Nicolai

Băsescu and Tăriceanu then held an inconclusive meeting about the Justice portfolio; afterwards, the latter took the case to the Constitutional Court, reiterating his claim that Băsescu lacked the authority to stop the appointment.

Same-sex marriage in South Africa

Fourie and Bonthuys requested leave to appeal to the Constitutional Court, but this was denied and the High Court instead granted leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA).

Soviet Union passport

In Ukraine, these laws were abolished by its Constitutional Court in 2001 on the grounds of unconstitutionality.

Zury Ríos Montt

The demonstration degenerated into a bloody riot that left one man dead (journalist Héctor Fernando Ramírez); it was, however, perceived as having been successful in getting General Ríos Montt's name on the presidential ballot when, a week later, the Constitutional Court overturned the Supreme Court's ban.


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Ahmed Ben Bella

The other members of the panel at the time were: President Miguel Trovoada (former President of São Tomé and Príncipe); Dr. Salim A. Salim (former Secretary-General of the OAU); Dr. Brigalia Bam (Chair of South Africa's Electoral Commission); and Elisabeth Pognon (former President of the Constitutional Court of Benin).

Chamber of Representatives of Colombia

# Indict for the impeachment of the following officeholders: President, Constitutional Court justices, Supreme Court justices, Judicature Superior Council magistrates, State Council magistrates and the Attorney General.

Chief Justice of South Africa

In 2001, after Mohammed's death and, consequently, with the position of Chief Justice vacant, the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa fused the positions of Chief Justice and President of the Constitutional Court into one single job of Chief Justice.

Under South Africa's Interim Constitution of 1993 and later the Final Constitution, the importance of the position of Chief Justice as the position of final judicial authority was temporarily relegated beneath that of the President of the newly created Constitutional Court.

Constitutional Court of Kosovo

On 30 March 2011 the Constitutional Court of Kosovo declared that the constitution was broken during the election of Behgjet Pacolli as President.

The Constitutional Court is composed of nine judges, appointed by the President of the Republic upon the proposal of the Assembly of Kosovo.

Constitutional Court of Peru

According to Kelsen's model, the Constitutional Court acts as a negative legislator, lacking the power to make laws but with the power to repeal all or portions of the unconstitutional laws/acts.

Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa

The post, originally called "Deputy President of the Constitutional Court", was created in September 1995 by the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Second Amendment Act, 1995, which was an amendment to the Interim Constitution.

Eugene Little Coyote

The Constitutional Court was however overruled by Bureau of Indian Affairs' regional director Ed Parisian, and later the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Carl J. Artman.

Galić

Valerija Galić (born 1956), Vice-President of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Kartellverband

At the Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht), the Kartellverband established a liberal democratic order (Freiheitlich-demokratische Grundordnung), with Gebhard Müller as Chief Justice and Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde and Paul Kirchhof as Associate Justices.

Kırşehir

Mustafa Bumin former president of the Constitutional Court of Turkey

Kofi Yamgnane

He stood as a candidate in the 2010 Togolese presidential election; however, his candidacy was rejected by the Constitutional Court due to doubt about his identity.

Kūris

Egidijus Kūris (born 1961), former President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania

Leopoldo Elia

Born in Fano, Marche, he was judge of the Constitutional Court, in Carlo Azeglio Ciampi's government(1993 - 1994) was Minister for Reforms and briefly Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1994, when Beniamino Andreatta belong President of Popular Party parliamentary group.

Mubarak Al-Mutairi

However, on September 22, 2008, following a vote recount, the constitutional court repealed Al-Mutairi's seat and gave it to Askar Al-Enezi.

Recognition of same-sex unions in South America

Following the 26 July 2011 ruling by the Constitutional Court, Senator Armando Benedetti introduced a bill to legalize same-sex marriage.

Rulings of the Constitutional Court of Thailand

On 24 June 2003, a petition was filed with the Constitutional Court seeking its ruling on the constitutionality of Jaruvan Maintaka's appointment by the Senate as Auditor-General.

Simović

Miodrag Simović, current Judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Supreme Court of Spain

Supreme Court decisions can exceptionally be overruled by the Constitutional Court where there has been an infringement of rights and freedoms of citizens which are embodied in the Spanish Constitution of 1978 or by decisions emanating from the European Court of Human Rights because Spain is a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights

Thai general election, 2006

Due to the election result, King Bhumibol Adulyadej took the unprecedented step of calling the elections undemocratic, and soon later the election was declared invalid by the Constitutional Court.

Tutzing

Tutzing has been home to various German celebrities, including the former president of the Federal Constitutional Court Hans-Jürgen Papier, musicians Peter Maffay, Leslie Mándoki, and Elly Ney, the late Guido Dessauer, and the military general and theorist Erich Ludendorff, who died and is buried in the town.

Zengő

The defenders of the Zengő included former Constitutional Court head László Sólyom who in 2005 was elected President of the Republic by parliament despite the ruling Hungarian Socialist Party's will.