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The High Court of Eritrea is the final court of appeal in Eritrea and the highest court in the Eritrean judicial hierarchy. It has both original and appellate jurisdiction.

A panel of three judges hears all original cases. However, when the High Court is serving final appeals, a panel of five judges hears the trial.

In 2005, The High Court took an average of 2 months to decide if it would hear an appeal, and at year's end had a backlog of approximately 200 cases.[1]

## List of chief justices (post-independence)

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Source:[2]

* Fozia Hashim (1991-1993)[3]
* Teame Beyene (1994-2001)[4][5]
* Menkerios Beraki (Chief Justice of Eritrea since 2001) [6]

## References

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1. ^ "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (2005)". Retrieved 2006-08-01.
2. ^ According to a 1954 source, J.E. Rolo of Lincoln was listed as the Chief Justice of the High Court of Eritrea pre-independence.
3. ^ "C. Post-independence" (PDF). A/HRC/29/CRP.1, Chapter III.
4. ^ Managing and Settling Ethnic Conflicts: Perspectives on Successes and Failures in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Springer. 2016-09-27. ISBN 978-1-137-07814-8.
5. ^ Beyene, Teame (December 2010). "The Eritrean Judiciary: Struggling for Independence". Eritrean Law Society Occasional Paper (7). SSRN 1723868.
6. ^ Plaut, Martin (2016). Understanding Eritrea: Inside Africa's Most Repressive State. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-066959-1.

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