Levels Of Litigation Under The Egyptian Code Of Civil And Commercial Procedure

The principle of access to judicial review is among the fundamental principles of the administration of justice. It affords a litigant or party to proceedings the opportunity to submit a dispute to more than one judge or court for consideration and determination. It allows an unsuccessful litigant to bring the same dispute before a higher court, constituted by a different judicial panel, for reconsideration, whether by affirming the original judgment, quashing it, declaring it void, or varying it.

A litigant initially proceeds before a court hearing the claim for the first time, known as a court of first instance, such as a Court of First Instance. At the second stage, judgments may be appealed before courts exercising appellate jurisdiction, such as the Courts of Appeal.