The High Court of Eritrea is the
final court of appeal in
Eritrea and the highest court in the Eritrean judicial hierarchy. It has both original and
appellate
In law, an appeal is the process in which cases are reviewed by a higher authority, where parties request a formal change to an official decision. Appeals function both as a process for error correction as well as a process of clarifying and ...
jurisdiction.
A panel of three
judges hears all original cases. However, when the High Court is serving final appeals, a panel of five judges hears the trial.
In 2005, The High Court took an average of 2 months to decide if it would hear an appeal, and at year's end had a backlog of approximately 200 cases.
References
Judiciary of Eritrea
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