The Dungkhag Court (sub-district court) is the court of first instance of the
Royal Court of Justice
The Bhutanese Royal Court of Justice (Dzongkha: དཔལ་ལྡན་འབྲུག་པའི་དྲང་ཁྲིམས་ལྷན་སྡེ་; Wylie ''Dpal-ldan 'Brug-pai Drang-khrims Lhan-sde''; Palden Drukpa Drangkhrim Lhende) ...
in 6 of the 20
Dzongkhag
The Kingdom of Bhutan is divided into 20 districts (Dzongkha: ). Bhutan is located between the Tibet Autonomous Region of China and India on the eastern slopes of the Himalayas in South Asia.
are the primary subdivisions of Bhutan. They pos ...
s of Bhutan which have
Dungkhag
A dungkhag (་ ''drungkhak'') is a sub-district of a dzongkhag (district) of Bhutan. The head of a dungkhag is a ''Dungpa''. As of 2007, nine of the twenty dzongkhags had from one to three dungkhags, with sixteen dungkhags in total.
History
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administrative divisions; in the remaining 14 Dzongkhags, the
Dzongkhag Court is the court of first instance. There are a total of 13
Dungkhag
A dungkhag (་ ''drungkhak'') is a sub-district of a dzongkhag (district) of Bhutan. The head of a dungkhag is a ''Dungpa''. As of 2007, nine of the twenty dzongkhags had from one to three dungkhags, with sixteen dungkhags in total.
History
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s (sub-districts) in the 6 Dzongkhags (districts) that contain them. Like the members of the Dzongkhag Court, the judges of the Dungkhag Court are not appointed by the
Druk Gyalpo
The King of Bhutan, officially the Druk Gyalpo (; ), is the constitutional monarch and head of state of the Kingdom of Bhutan. In the Dzongkha language, Bhutan is known as ''Drukyul'' which translates as "The Land of the Thunder Drago ...
under the
2008 Constitution.
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Supreme Court of Bhutan
The Supreme Court of Bhutan (མངོན་མཐོའི་ཁྲིམས་འདུན།) is the Kingdom of Bhutan's highest court of review and interpreter of the Constitution.
The main vision of Supreme Court of Bhutan is to create a fr ...
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High Court of Bhutan
The High Court of Bhutan derives its authority from the 2008 Constitution of Bhutan. It consists of the Chief Justice and eight Drangpons (Associate Justices). The Chief Justice and Drangpons of the High Court are appointed from among juniors, ...
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Dzongkhag Court
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Constitution of Bhutan
The Constitution of the Kingdom of Bhutan (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་གི་རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་; Wylie transliteration, Wylie:'' 'Druk-gi tsa-thrims-chen-mo'') was enacted 18 July 2008 by the Politics of Bhutan, R ...
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Politics of Bhutan
The government of Bhutan has been a constitutional monarchy since 18 July 2008. The King of Bhutan is the head of state. The executive power is exercised by the Lhengye Zhungtshog, or council of ministers, headed by the Prime Minister. Legislati ...
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Judicial system of Bhutan
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Judiciary
The judiciary (also known as the judicial system, judicature, judicial branch, judiciative branch, and court or judiciary system) is the system of courts that adjudicates legal disputes/disagreements and interprets, defends, and applies the law ...
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