Afghanistan · Courts
Court structure of Afghanistan
Every tier of the judiciary, what it hears, and where an appeal goes next.
The hierarchy, top to bottom
- Final appellate — Supreme Court
- Reconstituted under the current administration; composition and procedure not publicly documented in detail.
- Appellate — Provincial appeal courts
- One per province.
- First instance — Primary courts
- District-level courts applying Hanafi jurisprudence.
- Customary — Jirga and shura
- Non-state forums resolving a large share of disputes in practice.
Every court in the hierarchy
- supremeKabulSupreme Court of AfghanistanPresented by the current administration as the highest judicial authority, applying Hanafi jurisprudence; the appellate structure of the 2004 constitution is not operating as written.
- appellateProvincial capitalsProvincial CourtsProvincial-level adjudication and appeals, as organised by the current administration.
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