e Court or Cour Supreme; High Constitutional Court
or Haute Cour Constitutionnelle
Malawi:
Supreme Court of Appeal; High Court (chief justice appointed
by the president, puisne judges appointed on the advice of the
Judicial Service Commission); magistrate's courts
Malaysia:
Federal Court (judges appointed by the paramount ruler on
the advice of the prime minister)
Maldives:
High Court
Mali:
Supreme Court or Cour Supreme
Malta:
Constitutional Court; Court of Appeal; judges for both courts
are appointed by the president on the advice of the prime minister
Man, Isle of:
High Court of Justice (justices are appointed by the
Lord Chancellor of England on the nomination of the lieutenant
governor)
Marshall Islands:
Supreme Court; High Court
Martinique:
Court of Appeal or Cour d'Appel
Mauritania:
Supreme Court or Cour Supreme; Court of Appeals; lower
courts
Mauritius:
Supreme Court
Mayotte:
Supreme Court or Tribunal Superieur d'Appel
Mexico:
Supreme Court of Justice or Corte Suprema de Justicia
(judges are appointed by the president with consent of the Senate)
Micronesia, Federated States of:
Supreme Court
Moldova:
Supreme Court; Constitutional Court (the sole authority for
constitutional judicature)
Monaco:
Supreme Court or Tribunal Supreme (judges appointed by the
monarch on the basis of nominations by the National Council)
Mongolia:
Supreme Court (serves as appeals court for people's and
provincial courts, but rarely overturns verdicts of lower courts;
judges are nominated by the General Council of Courts for approval
by the president)
Montserrat:
Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (based in Saint Lucia,
one judge of the Supreme Court is a resident of the islands and
presides over the High Court)
Morocco:
Supreme Court (judges are appointed on the recommendation
of the Supreme Council of the Judiciary, presided over by the
monarch)
Mozambique:
Supreme Court (the court of final appeal; some of its
professional judges are appointed by the president and some are
elected by the Assembly); other courts include an Administrative
Court, customs courts, maritime courts, courts marshal, labor courts
note: although the constitution provides for the creation of a
separate Constitutional Court, one has never been established; in
its absence the Supreme Court reviews constitutional cases
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