monarch)
Australia:
High Court (the chief justice and six other justices are
appointed by the governor general)
Austria:
Supreme Judicial Court or Oberster Gerichtshof;
Administrative Court or Verwaltungsgerichtshof; Constitutional Court
or Verfassungsgerichtshof
Azerbaijan:
Supreme Court
Bahamas, The:
Supreme Court; Court of Appeal; magistrates courts
Bahrain:
High Civil Appeals Court
Bangladesh:
Supreme Court (the chief justices and other judges are
appointed by the president)
Barbados:
Supreme Court of Judicature (judges are appointed by the
Service Commissions for the Judicial and Legal Services)
Belarus:
Supreme Court (judges are appointed by the president);
Constitutional Court (half of the judges appointed by the president
and half appointed by the Chamber of Representatives)
Belgium:
Supreme Court of Justice or Hof van Cassatie (in Dutch) or
Cour de Cassation (in French) (judges are appointed for life by the
monarch)
Belize:
Supreme Court (the chief justice is appointed by the
governor general on the advice of the prime minister)
Benin:
Constitutional Court or Cour Constitutionnelle; Supreme Court
or Cour Supreme; High Court of Justice
Bermuda:
Supreme Court; Court of Appeal; Magistrate Courts
Bhutan:
Supreme Court of Appeal (the monarch); High Court (judges
appointed by the monarch)
Bolivia:
Supreme Court or Corte Suprema (judges appointed for
10-year terms by National Congress); District Courts (one in each
department); provincial and local courts (to try minor cases)
Bosnia and Herzegovina:
BiH Constitutional Court (consists of nine
members: four members are selected by the Bosniak/Croat Federation's
House of Representatives, two members by the Republika Srpska's
National Assembly, and three non-Bosnian members by the president of
the European Court of Human Rights)
note: a new state court, established in November 1999, has
jurisdiction over cases related to state-level law and appellate
jurisdiction over cases initiated in the entities; the entities each
have a Supreme Court; each entity also has a number of lower courts;
there are ten cantonal courts in the Federation, plus a number of
municipal courts; the Republika Srpska has five municipal courts
Botswana:
High Court; Court of Appeal; Magistrates' Courts (one in
each district)
Brazil:
Supreme Federal Tribunal (11
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