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The judiciary of Belgium is similar to the French judiciary. Belgium evolved from a unitary to a federal state , but its judicial 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 : cours et tribunaux , German : Gerichtshöfe und Gerichte ...
View on the Place Royale / Koningsplein; the Constitutional Court of Belgium (left) is adjacent to the Church of St. James on Coudenberg. Founded as the Court of Arbitration, the court owes its existence to the development of the Belgian unitary state into a federal state. The original name that had been given to the Court already says a lot ...
It was established in 1999 by Article 151 of the Belgian Constitution and is responsible for exercising external oversight over the operation of the judicial system, handling complaints, submitting advice and opinions to policymakers, nominating candidates for appointments to the judiciary and preparing guidelines for the training of the ...
The division of the Belgian territory into the five judicial areas (Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Liège and Mons) is laid down in article 156 of the Belgian Constitution. A judicial area covers multiple judicial arrondissements ("districts"), except for the judicial area of Mons. Each arrondissement has a tribunal of first instance. Further below ...
Judicial assistance will only be granted if the requester is sufficiently indigent, and if the proceedings have a reasonable chance of success. Judicial assistance consists of the total or partial waiving of court fees and bailiff fees, as well as of attorney's fees for the interventions of an attorney at the court that are mandatory by law. [11]
This is a List of Belgian high Judges and National magistrates. 1st President of the Court of Cassation. 1832-1867: Etienne de Gerlache; 1832-1867: Eugène Defacqz;
There is a justice of the peace for each judicial canton, which is the smallest geographical subdivision of Belgium for judicial purposes. Most judicial cantons cover multiple municipalities, except in the case of larger towns and cities, which are often divided into multiple judicial cantons. A judicial canton has an average population of ...
As stated above, most tribunals of first instance have multiple geographical divisions. This is because there used to be 27 judicial arrondissements prior to 2014, with each of those having their own tribunal of first instance. In 2014, the judicial system of Belgium was reformed and the arrondissements in most of the ten Belgian provinces were ...