Regional Court of Bolzano

The Regional Court of Bozen ( Italian Tribunale di Bolzano ) is a court of ordinary jurisdiction in Bozen , South Tyrol . The court is held by the Republic of Italy .

Jurisdiction

The Regional Court of Bolzano belongs to the judicial district of the Higher Regional Court of Trento (Italian Corte d'Appello di Trento ). The Higher Regional Court of Trento has a branch in Bolzano that is directly superordinate to the Regional Court. The judicial district of the Regional Court of Bolzano includes the autonomous province of Bolzano - South Tyrol . In the judicial district there are peace courts in Bozen, Brixen , Bruneck , Meran , Neumarkt , Schlanders and Sterzing . In 2013 and 2014, as part of a nationwide reform, the branch offices of the regional court in Brixen, Bruneck, Meran and Schlanders as well as the peace courts in Kaltern , Klausen and Welsberg-Taisten were dissolved.

In civil and criminal matters , the Bolzano Regional Court is the first instance responsible for all legal disputes that are not assigned to the justices of the peace. In the second instance it decides on appeals against judgments of the justice of the peace. Depending on the individual or collegial court , in more serious criminal cases the jury court (Italian corte d'assise ) is active.

The Bolzano Public Prosecutor's Office ( Procura della Repubblica di Bolzano in Italian ) is located at the Bolzano Regional Court and is headed by a Procurator ( Chief Public Prosecutor ).

The court languages in South Tyrol are German and Italian.

The regional court has its headquarters at the court in Bozen-Gries . The building dates from the time of fascism .

↑ The equivalent in the federal states of the Federal Republic of Germany is called the regional court . In Germany, the designation Landesgerichte stands for courts sponsored by the federal states. In Italy (as well as in Austria) the subordinate local authorities are not legal entities. For historical reasons and because of the comparability of the court with Austrian regional courts, the German name is also officially used in Austria.
↑ The Trento Court of Appeal has a branch in Bolzano with an associated public prosecutor's office. The reasons for this are the political division of the Trentino-South Tyrol region into two autonomous provinces and the use of two court languages in South Tyrol .
↑ In Italy, the district courts ( district courts ) ( pretura ) were abolished in the 1990s. Their tasks were divided between the regional (es) courts and the justice of the peace. Until the reform of 2013, the branch offices of the regional (es) courts were often located in buildings of the former local courts.
↑ Labor jurisdiction in Italy is a branch of ordinary jurisdiction, so the ordinary courts have jurisdiction. In the area of special jurisdiction there are e.g. B. Administrative or financial courts.