Since August 2021 the courts have been reconstituted under the Taliban administration, the 2004 constitution is not in force, and judges appointed under the former republic — including all women judges — were removed. Adjudication is described by the authorities as the direct application of Hanafi fiqh rather than of the republic-era codes, and the Shia Personal Status Law that once governed Shia family matters is no longer applied. No reliable open source establishes current procedure, rights of representation or appeal in practice, so this entry is recorded as research rather than as a verified account.
How the court is constituted
- Tier
- supreme
- Court type
- Apex court
- Jurisdiction
- Presented by the current administration as the highest judicial authority, applying Hanafi jurisprudence; the appellate structure of the 2004 constitution is not operating as written.
- Seat
- Kabul
- Established
- 1978
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