Court of appeal (Belgium)

The courts of appeal are the main appellate courts in Belgium's judicial system, hearing appeals against judgments of the tribunals of first instance. Belgium has five such courts, one for each major judicial area, Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Liege and Mons, staffed by professional judges called counsellors who are appointed for life and typically sit in panels of three across civil, criminal, family and juvenile chambers, plus a dedicated chamber of indictment for serious prosecutions; beyond ordinary appeals they hold original jurisdiction over certain cases involving high-ranking officials, and their rulings can be reviewed further only through a cassation appeal to Belgium's supreme court, limited to questions of law. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/