COURT OF CASSATION

Definition: COURT OF CASSATION

COURT OF CASSATION

1. The highest court of appeal in France, which has power to quash (Casser) or reverse the decisions of the inferior courts.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Books

• United Arab Emirates Court of Cassation Judgements (Arab and Islamic Laws Series, 17) (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Civil Liberties

Egypt

In October 1999, the Court of Cassation had upheld an earlier court decision to lift the Government's sequestration of the Syndicate and to allow elections. (references)

France

In June 2000, the Court of Cassation upheld a lower court order, and the statue was demolished on September 6. In April the press reported that software produced by Panda International was authored by a Scientologist. (references)

Economic History

Turkey

Judicial--Constitutional Court, Court of Cassation, Council of State, and other courts. (references)

Human Rights

Iraq

Both come under a separate Supreme Court of Cassation. (references)

Egypt

The Higher Judicial Council is a set body headed by the President of the Court of Cassation. (references)

Iraq

Defendants have the right to appeal to the Court of Appeal and then to the Court of Cassation. (references)

Minorities

Egypt

By year's end, the Court of Cassation still had not yet set a date to hear an appeal by the Public Prosecutor seeking a heavier sentence in the case of Ahmad and Ibrahim Nasir, who were sentenced to 7 years in prison for the September 1999 murder of a monk in Assiyut. (references)

Political Economy

Armenia

The Chairman of the Court of Cassation is Henrik DANIELIAN. (references)

Italy

Decisions of the Assizes Court of Appeals can be appealed to the highest court, the Court of Cassation (Supreme Court) in Rome. (references)

Political Rights

Turkey

Shortly after a July announcement that former Istanbul mayor Tayyip Erdogan was forming a new political party, the Court of Cassation Chief Prosecutor applied to the Constitutional Court for a review of Erdogan's eligibility to lead a party. (references)

Women

Egypt

In 1997 the Court of Cassation upheld the legality of a 1996 decree banning FGM that was issued by the Minister of Health and Population Planning. (references)

Egypt

At year's end, the Court of Cassation still was examining the cases of two attorneys, Fatma Lashin and Amany Talaat, who are challenging the Government's refusal to appoint them as public prosecutors. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Dutch

Cassatieregeling (statutory provision extending the Supreme Court's competence as court of cassation). (various references)

French

Cour de cassation (Court of Errors). (various references)

German

Kassationshof (Court of Errors). (various references)

Italian

Corte di cassazione (Court of Errors). (various references)

Pig Latin

ourtcay ofay assationcay

Russian 

кассационный суд. (various references)

Turkish

yargıtay (Chancery, high court, supreme court), temyiz mahkemesi (appellate court, Chancery, supreme court). (various references)

RM:dretgira da cassaziun. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: cosurfactants.

-4 letters: astronautics, coarctations, confiscators, coruscations, cosurfactant.

-5 letters: accusations, astronautic, cartoonists, castrations, coarctation, confiscator, corotations, coruscation, fascinators, saturations, scoutcrafts, surfactants.