High Court of Cassation and Justice

The High Court of Cassation and Justice (Romanian: Înalta Curte de Casație și Justiție) is Romania's supreme court, and the court of last resort. It is the equivalent of France's Cour de cassation and serves a similar function to other courts of cassation around the world. Nicolae Popa served as its president from 2004 to 2009.

It held various names during its existence: "Curtea Supremă" (Supreme Court) and "Tribunalul Suprem" (Supreme Tribunal) during Communist times (1948-1952, respectively 1952-1992), and "Curtea Supremă de Justiție" (Supreme Court of Justice) from 1990 to 2003. The name "Înalta Curte de Casație și Justiție" was re-introduced in 2003, having been also used during the Kingdom of Romania (until 1947).

Romania
This article is part of the series:
Politics and government of
Romania
Constitution
  • Constitution
    • Adoption referendum
    • 2003 amendments
  • Constitutional Court
Parliament 2008 - present legislature
  • Senate
    • President
      • Crin Antonescu
    • Standing Bureau
  • Chamber of Deputies
    • President
      • Valeriu Zgonea
    • Standing Bureau
Government
  • President (List)
    • Traian Băsescu
  • Prime Minister (List)
    • Victor Ponta
  • Cabinet (List)
Judiciary
  • High Court of Cassation and Justice
    • Courts in Romania
  • Ombudsman
  • Judicial reform
Political parties
  • Parliamentary parties
    • PSD
    • PNL
    • PDL
    • UDMR
    • PC
    • Other ethnic minorities' parties
  • Non-parliamentary parties
    • PRM
    • PNG-CD
    • PNŢ-CD
    • PVE
Elections Permanent Electoral Authority
  • Next presidential
  • Next legislative
  • Last local
  • Last presidential
  • Last European Parliament
  • Last legislative
Divisions
  • Macroregions
    • Development regions
      • Counties
    • Metropolitan areas
      • Municipalities
      • Sectors
      • Cities
      • Communes
Foreign relations
  • China
  • European Union
  • NATO
  • Moldova
    • Moldova reunion
  • Russia
  • Embassies
  • Other countries
  • Atlas

Politics portal

Read more about High Court Of Cassation And Justice:  List of Court Presidents

Famous quotes containing the words high, court and/or justice:

    “Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our hopes, but they are without our fears; they are subject like us to death, but without knowing it; even most of them are more attentive than we to self-preservation, and do not make so bad a use of their passions.”
    —Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689–1755)

    “The city is recruited from the country. In the year 1805, it is said, every legitimate monarch in Europe was imbecile. The city would have died out, rotted, and exploded, long ago, but that it was reinforced from the fields. It is only country which came to town day before yesterday, that is city and court today.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “They make a great ado nowadays about hard times; but I think that ... this general failure, both private and public, is rather occasion for rejoicing, as reminding us whom we have at the helm,—that justice is always done. If our merchants did not most of them fail, and the banks too, my faith in the old laws of the world would be staggered.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)