Supreme Court (Arab Union republics)

The 20 republics which constitute the federated states of the Arab Union each have their own superior court, formally known as the Supreme Court of the Republic (Arabic: المحكمة العليا الجمهودية al-maḥkamah al-‘ulyā al-jamhūrīyah). A republican supreme court has original jurisdiction to hear trials deemed to be of high importance, which the supreme court decides at its discretion. It also hears appeals of verdicts given in the republic's court of appeals, which itself hears appeals of the verdicts of the district courts. The verdict of a republican supreme court is usually final, although in rare cases the Court of Appeals of the Arab Union, the lower of the Arab Union's two permanent federal courts, will at its discretion grant an appeal of a republican supreme court's verdict (usually if the trial which rendered the verdict being appealed is suspected by the federal judiciary of having been mishandled or otherwise tainted in some way).