Eswatini · Courts
Court structure of Eswatini
Every tier of the judiciary, what it hears, and where an appeal goes next.
The hierarchy, top to bottom
- Final appellate — Supreme Court
- Final court in the modern hierarchy; replaced the Court of Appeal in 2005.
- Superior — High Court
- Unlimited original civil and criminal jurisdiction.
- First instance — Magistrates' courts
- Ordinary civil and criminal work within statutory limits.
- Customary — Swazi National Courts
- Parallel hierarchy applying Swazi customary law, with its own appeal route.
- Specialised — Industrial Court and Industrial Court of Appeal
- Employment and trade-dispute jurisdiction.
Every court in the hierarchy
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