ges for all
courts are appointed for life by the monarch
Macau
Court of Final Appeal in Macau Special Administrative Region
Macedonia
Supreme Court - the Assembly appoints the judges;
Constitutional Court - the Assembly appoints the judges; Republican
Judicial Council - the Assembly appoints the judges
Madagascar
Supreme 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 Suprema Corte de Justicia
Nacional (justices or ministros 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 and approved
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
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