The Regional Court has a jurisdiction to hear the civil cases whose material value exceed three thousand (3,000) USD, cases with unlimited value, labour related cases, cases in which the government is a party and any other case that a specific law directed to be heard by the Regional Court. Normally, the Regional Court shall have jurisdiction to hear over the cases that come from the whole territory of the region. Apart from the above stated civil cases, the Regional Court shall have the jurisdiction to hear all criminal cases which are not within the jurisdiction of the district courts and has two sections which are the General Section and Assize Section.

The general section hears the civil cases which are not within the jurisdiction of the district court and criminal cases whose maximum punishment not exceeding ten (10) years of imprisonment. In the general section all cases are heard by a single judge. The Assize Section contains the President of the Regional Court and two other Assessors in accordance with Article 3 of the Organizaiton of Judiciary Law and hear criminal cases which are punishable with death, imprisonment for life or imprisonment for not less than ten years. Consequently, all civil cases which are not under jurisdiction of the district court including land related cases other than inheritance related land are heard by Regional Court. The Districts and Regional Courts are called together as first instance courts since cases start from them.