The Constitutional Court (in Slovenian Ustavno sodišče) is an independent court which reviews the lawfulness of different laws and regulations in Slovenia and decides upon complaints of human rights violations commited by individual acts of state authorities. It works on the basis of the Constitution and the Constitutional Court Act.

The Court may declare laws or regulations invalid if it determines that they conflict with a higher law or the Constitution of Slovenia. You can only apply to the Constitutional Court if you believe that a certain law violates the human rights or legal principles which are laid out in the Constitution of Slovenia. 

Only the Court and the institution who adopted the law or regulations can annul them. The Court can also choose the date from which the law has lost its force. For example, the Court may declare that the law you are complaining about was invalid all along and its application in your case violated your human rights.  Or, it can decide that the law will no longer be in force from the day of the judgement, but it was valid and in force when it was applied to you. 

You can also complain against an individual act issued in your name that violates your human rights. You may only do so after you have used all existing legal remedies.

The decisions and judgements of the Constitutional Court are binding and they cannot be appealed.

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Last updated 21/03/2022