Corte d'appello
Corte d'appello ( dt. "Court of Appeal") is the designation for appellate courts of ordinary jurisdiction in Italy . The courts of appeal correspond roughly to the higher regional courts of Germany and Austria . In the Italian judicial structure, they are under the Supreme Court of Cassation (Corte Suprema di Cassazione) in Rome and over the regional courts (tribunals) and the courts of justice . In Italy, the court is exclusively held by the state, the regions only serve as the basis for judicial districts .
Responsibilities
The courts of appeal are called upon in civil and criminal matters to contest the judgments of the regional courts. You always decide as a collegiate court .
For particularly serious offenses such as murder, jury courts (Corte d'assise) are set up in each appellate court district , usually at the regional courts. The court of appeal with the designation “Court of Appeal (Corte d'assise d'appello)” is located at the appellate courts (Corte d'appello) . The jury consists of professional judges and honorary judges , but not a jury .
Each court of appeal has a General Prosecutor's Office (Procura Generale della Repubblica) with an Antimafia District Prosecutor (Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia - DDA) .
There are currently 26 courts of appeal with three branches in Italy. Usually they are located in the capitals of the Italian regions . Southern Italian regions in particular often have more than one court of appeal. In addition to Palermo , Sicily also has one in Caltanissetta , Catania and Messina . The northern Italian Aosta Valley falls under the jurisdiction of the Turin Court of Appeal ( Piedmont ).
The following courts of appeal and their branches each have a criminal enforcement court (tribunale di sorveglianza) and a juvenile court with associated public prosecutor's office. In juvenile criminal matters , the appellate courts are the appeal instance.
Appeal courts
The following list of appellate courts is not alphabetical, but geographically divided into regions from north to south. The appellate courts in the regional capitals are named first, followed by any other courts or branch offices. On the right are the regional courts (tribunali) in the judicial districts of the appellate courts , but without the subordinate peace courts in the regional court districts. If places of jurisdiction are written in italics , there is a separate article for the corresponding dish.