Provided for by the 1987 Constitution but not installed until 2020, a thirty-three-year gap during which Suriname had no effective means of testing legislation. It reviews statutes and government decisions against the Constitution and ratified treaties and may declare them wholly or partly non-binding.
How the court is constituted
- Tier
- constitutional
- Court type
- Constitutional court
- Jurisdiction
- National
- Seat
- Paramaribo
- Established
- 2020
- Composition
- Three members and two alternates, serving five-year terms.
- Appointment
- Appointed by the President on the nomination of the National Assembly.
- Languages
- Dutch
Where an appeal goes next
Final. Its declarations bind all organs of state.
Decisions worth knowing
- Ruling on the Amnesty Act2021
Held the 2012 amnesty for the 1982 December murders incompatible with the Constitution and treaty obligations.
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