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Supreme Court of Justice

The Supreme Court of Justice is the highest court of all judicial bodies.

Its jurisdictional organs are:

It is made up of all the judges and is the highest ranking body. Decisions are made by majority vote and in the event of a tie, the chairman's vote shall be decisive.

It is competent to hear and rule on cassation appeals filed for the first time in civil and commercial matters.

It is competent to hear and rule on cassation appeals filed for the first time in criminal matters.
It is also competent to hear and rule on appeals in criminal matters, attributed to the Supreme Court of Justice, provided they are not those heard by the latter as a privileged jurisdiction.

It is competent to hear and rule on cassation appeals filed for the first time in land, labor, contentious-administrative and contentious-tax matters.

It is composed of the three chambers of the Supreme Court of Justice, and is the competent body to hear the second cassation appeal, on the occasion of a remittal made by any of the chambers, when it relates to the same point.