word | | Judicial branch |
| appointed | Cyprus | Supreme Court (judges are appointed jointly by the president and vice president) note: there is also a Supreme Court in the area administered by Turkish Cypriots |
| appointed | Czech Republic | Supreme Court; Constitutional Court; chairman and deputy chairmen are appointed by the president for a 10-year term |
| appointed | Denmark | Supreme Court (judges are appointed by the monarch for life) |
| appointed | Dominican Republic | Supreme Court or Corte Suprema (judges are appointed by the National Judicial Council comprised of the president, the leaders of both chambers of congress, the president of the Supreme Court, and an ... |
| appointed | Estonia | National Court (chairman appointed by Parliament for life) |
| appointed | Ethiopia | ... president and vice president of the Federal Supreme Court are recommended by the prime minister and appointed by the House of People's Representatives; for other federal judges, the prime minister submits ... |
| appointed | European Union | ... the EU; resolve constitutional issues among the EU institutions) - 27 justices (one from each member state) appointed for a six-year term; note - for the sake of efficiency, the court can sit ... |
| appointed | Fiji | Supreme Court (judges are appointed by the president); Court of Appeal; High Court; Magistrates' Courts |
| appointed | Finland | Supreme Court or Korkein Oikeus (judges appointed by the president) |
| appointed | France | Supreme Court of Appeals or Cour de Cassation (judges are appointed by the president from nominations of the High Council of the Judiciary); Constitutional Council or Conseil Constitutionnel (three members appointed by ... |
| appointed | Greece | Supreme Judicial Court; Special Supreme Tribunal; all judges appointed for life by the president after consultation with a judicial council |
| appointed | Guam | Federal District Court (judge is appointed by the president); Territorial Superior Court (judges appointed for eight-year terms by the governor) |
| appointed | Guinea-Bissau | Supreme Court or Supremo Tribunal da Justica (consists of nine justices appointed by the president and serve at his pleasure; final court of appeals in criminal and civil cases); Regional Courts (one ... |
| appointed | Iceland | Supreme Court or Haestirettur (justices are appointed for life by the Minister of Justice); eight district courts (justices are appointed for life by the Minister of Justice) |
| appointed | India | Supreme Court (one chief justice and 25 associate justices are appointed by the president and remain in office until they reach the age of 65 or are removed for "proved misbehavior") |
| appointed | Indonesia | Supreme Court or Mahkamah Agung (justices appointed by the president from a list of candidates selected by the legislature); a separate Constitutional Court or Mahkamah Konstitusi was invested by the president on ... |
| appointed | Ireland | Supreme Court (judges appointed by the president on the advice of the prime minister and cabinet) |
| appointed | Isle of Man | High Court of Justice (justices are appointed by the Lord Chancellor of England on the nomination of the lieutenant governor) |
| appointed | Israel | Supreme Court (justices appointed by Judicial Selection Committee - made up of all three branches of the government; mandatory retirement age is 70) |
| appointed | Italy | Constitutional Court or Corte Costituzionale (composed of 15 judges: one-third appointed by the president, one-third elected by Parliament, one-third elected by the ordinary and administrative Supreme Courts) |
| appointed | Jamaica | Supreme Court (judges appointed by the governor general on the advice of the prime minister); Court of Appeal |
| appointed | Japan | Supreme Court (chief justice is appointed by the monarch after designation by the cabinet; all other justices are appointed by the cabinet) |
| appointed | Kenya | Court of Appeal (chief justice is appointed by the president); High Court |
| appointed | Kiribati | Court of Appeal; High Court; 26 Magistrates' courts; judges at all levels are appointed by the president |
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