Apex of the ordinary judiciary, exercising cassation through civil, criminal, constitutional and social chambers. Its plenary criminal agreements (acuerdos plenarios) bind lower courts and are the practical source of criminal-law doctrine. It tried the Fujimori human-rights case, one of the region's landmark accountability proceedings.
How the court is constituted
- Tier
- supreme
- Court type
- Supreme court of cassation
- Jurisdiction
- National
- Seat
- Lima
- Established
- 1825
- Composition
- Around twenty supreme judges sitting in permanent and transitional chambers.
- Appointment
- Appointed by the Junta Nacional de Justicia after public competition and evaluation.
- Languages
- Spanish, Quechua
Where an appeal goes next
Constitutional questions proceed to the Constitutional Tribunal by way of the guarantees.
Decisions worth knowing
- Fujimori (Barrios Altos and La Cantuta)2009
Convicted a former President of crimes against humanity for death-squad killings.
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