Four district courts serve the country. Customary law (lisan) resolves a large share of local disputes through traditional authorities, and the formal courts face acute shortages of qualified judges and Portuguese-language capacity, which is the practical constraint on access rather than the statutory framework.
How the court is constituted
- Tier
- first instance
- Court type
- District court
- Jurisdiction
- First-instance civil, criminal, labour and administrative jurisdiction within the district.
- Seat
- Dili, Baucau, Suai, Oecusse
- Established
- 2000
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