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Federal Supreme Court cassation division reviews the final decisions on federal issues. In addition, the FSC is given the ability to review the final decisions of the State Supreme Court. The State Supreme Court is also given this cassation power however the division within the FSC goes over the final decisions of a State Supreme Court. This decision by the cassation division creates a precedent that is binding. Because the State Supreme Court is given such power, it leads to cassation over cassation. One of the reasons this remains a highly controversial issue is that the line of jurisdiction become hazy. There is no definite meaning in the Constitution that delineates the difference between a federal and state legal issue.
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interpretation and investigation of constitutional issues. The CCI has eleven members. Six of the members are legal scholars and three are from the HOF. The
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407:. Other judges for federal courts are selected by the Federal Judicial Administrative Council (a group of 10 members chaired by the President of the FSC) and submitted to the HoPR by the Prime Minister for appointment. Article 81 of the Constitution gives the Prime Minister the ability to nominate the members of the FSCR and Article 83 allows the resolution of constitutional disputes by the HOR.
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273:. Article 78 of the Constitution establishes the judiciary and at the top is the FSC. By the Constitution, the Federal Supreme Court has "the power of cassation over any final court decision containing a basic error of law". In 2018,
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