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JURISDICTIONS OF SUPREME

COURT
• The Supreme Court has jurisdiction (the authority to
hear) over a wide range of cases.
• Its jurisdiction is generally classified into original,
appellate and advisory.
• Under its original jurisdiction, the Court enforces
fundamental rights, hears federal disputes and can
transfer cases.
INTRODUCTION

• The Supreme Court


has original, appellate and
advisory jurisdiction.
• The Supreme Court has been
conferred with power to direct
transfer of any civil or criminal
case from one State High Court
to another State High Court or
from a Court subordinate to
another State High Court.
SUPREME COURT

• The Supreme Court of India is the supreme judicial


body of India and the highest court of the Republic of India
under the constitution.
• The Decision Of The Supreme Court In Any Case Or Matter
Would Be Final.
• It is the most senior constitutional court and has the power
of judicial review.
• The Chief Justice of India is the head and chief judge of the
Supreme Court, which consists of a maximum of 34 judges
and has extensive powers in the form
of original, appellate and advisory jurisdictions.
JURISDICTIONS

• Jurisdiction means and includes any authority conferred by the law


upon the court, tribunal or judge to decide or adjudicate any
dispute between the parties or pass judgment or order.
• The scope of powers of Supreme Court to hear and decide cases
is called its jurisdiction.
• The Supreme Court has three types of jurisdictions namely:-
1. Original
2. Appellate
3. Advisory.
ORIGINAL JURISDICTION

• In common law legal systems original jurisdiction of a court


is the power to hear a case for the first time,
• The Supreme Court has been given exclusive original
jurisdiction which extends to disputes:-
a. Between the Government of India and one or more States,
b. Between the Government of India and one or more States
on one side and one or more States on the other,
c. Between two or more States.
• Listed under Article 131 of the Indian constitution.
APPELATE JURISDICTION

• The power of the higher court to review the decision or


change the result of the decisions made by the lower
courts is called appellate jurisdiction. 
• The cases which come to the Supreme Court to appeal
from the decision or order of High Court, or a Tribunal in
India come under as 'Appellate Jurisdiction’.
• Listed under Article 132(1), 133(1) or 134 of the Indian
Constitution
ADVISORY JURISDICTION

• The Supreme Court has advisory jurisdiction over


matters that have been specifically referred to it by the
President of India. 
• There is no specific provision for such an advisory
jurisdiction in the Constitution of the United States of
America or that of Australia.
• Listed under Article 143 of the Indian constitution.

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