The Constitutional Court (Dutch: Grondwettelijk Hof, French: Cour constitutionelle, German: Verfassungsgerichtshof) plays a central role within the federal...

A constitutional court is a high court that deals primarily with constitutional law. Its main authority is to rule on whether laws that are challenged...

The Court of Cassation (Dutch: Hof van Cassatie, French: Cour de cassation, German: Kassationshof) of Belgium is the supreme court of the Belgian judiciary...

Constitution. The Court developed into a constitutional court; in May 2007 it was formally redesignated as the Constitutional Court. This court has the authority...

politics of Belgium take place in the framework of a federal, representative democratic, constitutional monarchy. The King of the Belgians is the head...

Constitutional monarchy, also known as limited monarchy, parliamentary monarchy or democratic monarchy, is a form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises...

coalition government. Belgium is a federal state and has a civil law system. The Belgian state was formed as a constitutional monarchy in 1830, after...

to the European Court of Justice. These are the first references by each constitutional court: 1997: Constitutional Court of Belgium: case C-93/97, Fédération...

Belgium is a constitutional, hereditary and popular monarchy. The monarch is titled King (or Queen) of the Belgians (Dutch: Koning(in) der Belgen, French:...

Ghent) is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague and a former judge at the Belgian Constitutional Court. Bossuyt obtained a Dr.iur (LLM)...

power. These include constitutional revisions, laws requiring a qualified majority, laws on the basic structure of the Belgian State, laws approving...

Charleroi, Liège, Bruges, Namur, and Leuven. Belgium is a sovereign state and a federal constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system. Its institutional...

Supreme Court. The Supreme Court striking down a constitutional coup may seem like a contradiction in terms, as the coup no longer seems constitutional, per...

House Agreement. The Coloured vote constitutional crisis (1951–55): The National Party government disputed a Supreme Court decision overturning its Separate...

patients. On February 5, 2024, the Constitutional Court of Ecuador ruled that active euthanasia is legal. The Court decided that Article 144 of COIP (Código...

President as per the Three Judges Cases "International Alliance of Constitutional Courts" (in English and Italian). Retrieved Jun 16, 2018. "Guyana". The...

system has not been adapted to a federal system. The Belgian judiciary is referred to as the courts and tribunals (Dutch: hoven en rechtbanken, French:...

Audit, the Constitutional Court, the Council of State and the Council for Alien Law Litigation, and the governors of the provinces of Belgium. In these...

interest in Belgian society, culture and enterprise. The King had a constitutional role which came into play in 2010–2011 when Belgium's parliament was...

the judicial system of Belgium. It is the highest Belgian court with criminal jurisdiction; as such, it is the only Belgian court that can sentence someone...

of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este (born 16 December 1955) is a member of the Belgian royal family as the husband of Princess Astrid of Belgium. He...

entity in Belgium that did not coincide with provincial borders, and as such had been deemed unconstitutional by the Belgian Constitutional Court. The district...

"The Constitutional Court of Belgium: Safeguard of the Autonomy of the Communities and Regions". In Aroney, Nicholas; Kincaid, John (eds.). Courts in Federal...

of Belgium (Dutch: Eerste minister van België; French: Premier ministre de Belgique; German: Premierminister von Belgien) or the premier of Belgium is...

erster Instanz) are the main trial courts in the judicial system of Belgium. The tribunals of first instance are courts of general jurisdiction; in the sense...

of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, addressing the issue of abortion in 1975, two years after the United States Supreme Court decision Roe v...

the electoral process to be carried out—as well as to the Constitutional Court, the High Court of Justice of Catalonia and state prosecutors. By 15 September...

division into language areas was included in the Belgian Constitution in 1970. Through constitutional reforms in the 1970s and 1980s, regionalisation of...

2008, p74 "Decision of the Constitutional Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Canton 10". Constitutional Court of the Federation of Bosnia...

October 2020 the Belgian Court of Appeals granted the title of Princess to Delphine Boël, illegitimate daughter of Albert II of Belgium, but this did not...