Supreme Court of Denmark

The Højesteret (German Supreme Court) is Denmark's highest appeal court of civil and criminal matters. It negotiated judgments and procedures of the two national courts ( Østre Landsret and Vestre ) and the Maritime and Commercial Court ( Maritime and Commercial Rescue ). In criminal cases, however, the court does not rise again in the taking of evidence, but instead can only procedural defects, punitive and statutory interpretation of the subordinate instances, ie, a possible violation of procedural law or substantive law consider.

The Danish Constitution guarantees a direct review by the Supreme Court, if a club is forcibly dissolved by Act of Parliament.

The Højesteret treated last instance method from the Faroe Islands and Greenland.

The Supreme Court has its seat at Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen. It was in 1661 by Frederick III. justified. Currently it consists of 19 judges. Court president in 2010 Børge Dahl.