Mongolia · Courts
Court structure of Mongolia
Every tier of the judiciary, what it hears, and where an appeal goes next.
The hierarchy, top to bottom
- Constitutional — Constitutional Court (Tsets)
- Separate from the ordinary courts; reviews constitutionality only.
- Final appellate — Supreme Court of Mongolia
- Cassation review, and issues interpretive guidance binding on lower courts.
- Appellate — Aimag and Capital City Courts
- Appeals from first-instance courts in civil and criminal matters.
- First instance — Soum and District Courts
- General civil and criminal jurisdiction at local level.
- Specialist — Administrative Courts
- A separate administrative hierarchy reviews acts of public bodies.
Every court in the hierarchy
- constitutionalUlaanbaatarConstitutional Court of MongoliaReview of the constitutionality of statutes, presidential and government decrees, and international treaties, on petition by citizens, the State Great Khural, the President or the Prosecutor General.
- supremeUlaanbaatarSupreme Court of MongoliaFinal appeals in civil, criminal and administrative matters, official interpretation of statutes for the lower courts, and first-instance jurisdiction over a narrow class of cases.
- appellateAimag centres and UlaanbaatarAimag and Capital City CourtsAppeals from soum and inter-soum courts and from district courts of Ulaanbaatar, and first-instance jurisdiction over serious criminal matters.
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