Seventy-seven district courts form the trial tier. Below them, local judicial committees chaired by the deputy mayor or vice-chair of each rural municipality mediate small civil disputes under the Local Government Operation Act 2017 — a genuinely new tier created by federalisation, and the first stop for many everyday disputes.
How the court is constituted
- Tier
- first instance
- Court type
- District court
- Jurisdiction
- First-instance civil, criminal and family matters, and appeals from the judicial committees of local governments.
- Seat
- District headquarters
- Established
- 1951
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