The Appeal Court has jurisdiction to hear all appeal cases that come from first instance courts namely the district and regional courts. Similarly, it has jurisdiction to decide the adjudication jurisdiction in case district courts or regional court and district court conflict over the jurisdiction of certain case, as well as the hearing of foreign judgments.

The Appeal Court contains two sections which are the General Applellate Section and Assize Appellate Seciton. The General Appellate Section shall be heard by a single judge and has a jurisdiction to hear appeals against judgments of the District Court and General Seciton of the Regional Court. The Assize Appellate Section consist of the President of the Appeal Court, a judge of the Appeal Court and three Assessors and hear all appeals against the judgments of the Assize Section of the Regional Court. Therefore, everyone who is not satisfied with the judgments of the District and Regional Court can take an appeal to the relevant Regional Appeal Court. The Appeal Court shall have the jurisdiction over the whole territory of the region it locates.