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Supreme Court of Justice of Costa Rica | |
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Building of the Supreme Court of Justice of Costa Rica | |
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Established | January 25, 1825 |
Location | San José |
Website | https://pj.poder-judicial.go.cr |
President of the Supreme Court of Justice | |
Currently | Orlando Aguirre Gómez |
Since | September 26, 2022 |
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The Supreme Court of Costa Rica (Spanish: Corte Suprema de Justicia de Costa Rica) is the court of greater hierarchy of Law and Justice in Costa Rica.[1]
Established on 25 January 1825, the current President of the Supreme Court of Justice is Fernando Cruz Castro since 1 August 2018. All of the courts in the country are dependent on the Supreme Court of Justice. Its organizational structure is based on three factors: the matter of the subjects to solve, the territory where they take place, and the quantity (amount of money that is involved in the subject).
The Supreme Court has 22 proprietary magistrates, 25 substitute magistrates in three first chambers and 12 substitute magistrates in the Constitutional Chamber. They are distributed of the following way: five in each one of the three Chambers of Annulment and seven in the Constitutional Chamber. They are nominated by the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica every eight years.