What we are seeing effectively is the Supreme Court becoming completely politicized and completely becoming part of the conflict,” said Jalel Harchaoui, associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute and leading expert on Libya. He told Al-Monitor, “Now you have effectively a Supreme Court president recognized by Tripoli and another one who just got designated by Saleh.”The Supreme Court is the highest judicial authority in Libya’s four-tier court system, and as such acts as the court of last appeal in legal matters, according to a report on the Libyan legal system published by New York University. The Supreme Court is composed of several chambers and, most importantly, has jurisdiction as a constitutional court. Reacting to the parliament’s move, the CDA declared in April that the chamber’s decision was not constitutional, and called on the Supreme Court to reactivate its constitutional circuit to examine it. Redoubling its bid, the parliament ordered in early September that the Supreme Court should begin sitting in the eastern city of al-Bayda instead of Tripoli.

Source: Libya Today September 25, 2022 06:50 UTC