Appellate Justice (Arab republic)

In the judicial system of the Union of Arab Republics (UAR; informally the Arab Union), each of the union's 20 republics (federated states) has its own trial court system consisting of multiple district courts subordinate to a single republican appellate court, which is itself subordinate to a single republican supreme court. Like the Chief Justice of the Republic (the senior presiding justice of a republic's supreme court and the republic's seniormost judicial official), the republic's appellate court is administered by a senior justice known formally as the Appellate Justice of the Republic (Arabic: قاض الاستئناف الجمهوري qāḍ al-isti’ināf al-jamhūrī). The Appellate Justice of the Republic is appointed by the republic's premier (head of government), and is the republic's second-most senior judicial official after the Chief Justice of the Republic.