Jurisdiction

1. Subject Matter Jurisdiction

This Court is the final court for all administrative litigations of this country. Pursuant to §12 of the Organic Law of Administrative Court, §32 of the Intellectual Property Case Adjudication Act, and §235-1 of the Administrative Litigation Act, this Court has juris- diction over the following matters:

(1) Appeals or interlocutory appeals against the judgments or rulings made by the High Administrative Court.

(2) Appeals or interlocutory appeals against the judgments or rulings made by the Intel- lectual Property Court that arise from administrative litigation.

(3) Appeal or interlocutory appeal cases heard initially by the High Administrative Courts but later transferred to the docket of Supreme Administrative Court on the ground that the former deems the transfer of jurisdiction is necessary to ensure consistent judgments and rulings.

(4) Other cases that, by statute, should be adjudicated by this Court.

In addition, in order to play the role of the instance of legal review in making uniform the legal opinions held by individual justices, the Organic Law of Administrative Courts stipulates that this Court set up a Grand Panel as the procedural mechanism to make uniform, within the judicial competence, the legal opinions held by individual justices.

The territorial jurisdiction of first-instance administrative courts is indicated in the chart below. The territorial jurisdiction of this Court belongs to various High Administrative Courts and the Intellectual Property Court.