Sits in plenary and in four chambers — Constitutional, Civil, Criminal and Contentious-Administrative. Unusually, it also licenses and disciplines lawyers and notaries directly, rather than a bar association doing so.
How the court is constituted
- Tier
- supreme
- Court type
- Supreme court
- Jurisdiction
- National
- Seat
- San Salvador
- Established
- 1824
- Composition
- Fifteen magistrates elected for nine years, one third renewed every three years.
- Appointment
- Elected by a two-thirds vote of the Legislative Assembly from lists submitted by the National Judiciary Council and the bar.
- Languages
- Spanish
Where an appeal goes next
Final domestically.
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