People’s Supreme Court of Cuba

People's Supreme Court (consists of court president, vice president, 41 professional justices, and NA lay judges); organization includes the State Council, criminal, civil, administrative, labor, crimes against the state, and military courts)

People's Supreme Court (consists of court president, vice president, 41 professional justices, and NA lay judges); organization includes the State Council, criminal, civil, administrative, labor, crimes against the state, and military courts)

civil law system based on Spanish civil code

The creation of the Supreme Court of Cuba dates from April 14, 1899, constituted by a Single Chamber to impart justice, an organ that underwent successive modifications and was institutionalized by means of the Organic Law of the Judicial Power of January 27, 1909.

Aguiar Street #367 b/ Obrapía and Obispo, Habana Vieja, Havana, Cuba.

Article 147 defines that "the function of imparting justice derives from the people and is exercised in their name by the Supreme People's Court and the other courts that the law institutes

The Law of Organization was repealed by Law No. 70, of July 12, 1990, and this, by the current Law No. 82, "Law of the People's Courts", of June 11, 1998, which reinforces independence judicial when granting to the Government Council of the Supreme People's Court functions in relation to the provincial and municipal courts that previously resided in the Ministry of Justice.