The Constitution provides for a Supreme Court of Justice, but it has never been established, so the Court of Appeal exercises its powers — including constitutional review, which it used in 2013 to strike down a tax measure. Portuguese remains an official language of the courts alongside Tetum, and the applicable law includes Indonesian-era provisions where they are not inconsistent with the Constitution, which makes identifying the governing text unusually difficult.
How the court is constituted
- Tier
- supreme
- Court type
- Acting apex and constitutional court
- Jurisdiction
- Appeals from the district courts and, pending establishment of the Supreme Court of Justice, the constitutional review and electoral jurisdiction assigned to that court by the Constitution.
- Seat
- Dili
- Established
- 2003
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