Established under Article 216 of the Constitution · fifteen justices
Judgments
Judgments are published in full, in open and machine-readable form, free of charge, with the names of the justices deciding and with every dissenting opinion.
Article 196(2): judgments are published in full, in open and machine-readable form, free of charge, with the names of the judges deciding and the dissenting opinions, and with the redactions Article 51 requires.
Article 216(3): the decisions of the Court are final, bind every organ, and are published with reasons and with dissenting opinions.
Act declared void
Refusal of a candidacy on a residence condition
CC-2026-031 · plenary · 9 July 2026 · brought by the person refused
The Electoral Commission treated a period of hospital treatment outside the district as absence within the meaning of the residence condition. The Court held that treatment away from a district is not absence for that purpose, annulled the refusal, and directed registration before the ballot.
Two justices dissented, holding that the condition admits of no exception and that the remedy lay with the Assembly.
Incompatibility declared
Law on the licensing of foreign entities, section 14
CC-2026-024 · plenary · 2 June 2026 · on reference from a court
Section 14 permitted a licence outlasting the schedule authorising it, contrary to Article 305. The Court declared the incompatibility, stated the provisions affected, stated what would cure them, and fixed a period of nine months. The provision remains in force during that period.
Application dismissed
Challenge to the apportionment of seats for the 2027 ballot
CC-2026-019 · Constitutional Chamber, panel of seven · 14 May 2026
The applicant contended that a departure of 4.1 per cent from the mean district size breached Article 121(5). The Chamber held that the criteria of that Article admit a departure of this order where the alternatives published by the Boundary Division would each produce a greater one, and dismissed the application.
One justice dissented on the ground that the Division had not published its computation of the alternatives in full.
Order of restoration
Discharge into the Marnaqui above Tavrino
CC-2026-012 · Ecological Chamber, panel of five with two scientific assessors · 30 March 2026
Brought under Article 19 in the name of the river by a residents' association. The Chamber found a breach of the ecological budget, ordered restoration on a timetable of six years, ordered the sequestration of the resources required, and declared the personal liability of the two persons who authorised the discharge.
Act declared void
Alteration of an electoral district by the sub-regional council of Cortius
CC-2025-047 · plenary · 11 December 2025 · brought by a resident
The alteration was adopted for a purpose prohibited by Article 187(5). Article 265(1) makes such an act void whoever adopts it and by whatever majority. The Court recorded that any person may plead the nullity before any court at any time, and declared the personal liability of those who proposed and adopted it.
Conflict resolved
Competence over the water allocation of the Ilvara watershed
CC-2025-038 · plenary · 3 October 2025 · brought by two regional councils
A conflict of competence between the Western and Eastern Regions. The Court held the allocation to fall to the National Planning Congress, since the watershed supplies both regions and Article 91(3) requires equality of provision between territories.
Three justices would have remitted the matter to the two councils to agree a joint arrangement first.
Application dismissed
Challenge to the resources fixed for the Audit Office
CC-2025-029 · plenary · 7 August 2025
The applicant contended that the share of the plan allotted to the Audit Office was insufficient for its functions. The Court held that Article 240(1) commits the figure to organic law upon the estimate the office publishes, and that the sufficiency of a figure so fixed is not a question of conformity with the Constitution.
No judgment matches those conditions.
Dissenting opinions
Three of the seven judgments above carry a dissent, and each dissent is published with the judgment at the same length. Article 196(2) requires it. A justice dissenting states the reasoning that would have produced a different result, and that reasoning stands available to any later applicant and to any court considering the same question.
Hearings
Article 196(1): hearings are public. A court may close a hearing in part by reasoned and published order, on the grounds of the protection of a child, of the private life of a party, or of the physical safety of a person, and on no other ground.
Article 196(3): journalists attend by right, record and report the hearing.
Every hearing of the Court in the period was held in public and in full. No order closing a hearing in part has been made since the Court was constituted.