Joint Court of Justice of Aruba, Curacao, Sint Maarten, and of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba

The Joint Court of Justice of Aruba, Curacao, Sint Maarten, and of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba is a court of second instance serving the three Caribbean countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten, and the three Caribbean special municipalities of the Netherlands, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba. It operates at a level equivalent to comparable courts in the Netherlands itself, hearing both first-instance and appellate cases across the six islands from permanent courthouses in Oranjestad, Willemstad and Philipsburg, with a single pool of judges sitting individually for first-instance matters and as three-judge panels on appeal, and since 2012 it has also held jurisdiction over certain inquiry procedures originating in Curacao; final appeals on points of law may go to the Supreme Court of the Netherlands in The Hague. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/