Sits in Batumi rather than the capital. Direct individual constitutional claim is available without exhausting other remedies where a norm itself is challenged, which makes it one of the more accessible constitutional courts in the region; it has used that jurisdiction on drug-possession penalties and on media and privacy questions.
How the court is constituted
- Tier
- constitutional
- Court type
- Constitutional court
- Jurisdiction
- Review of the constitutionality of statutes and normative acts on constitutional claim by any person whose rights are affected, disputes over competence between state bodies, and constitutionality of referendums and elections.
- Seat
- Batumi
- Established
- 1996
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