From what event does the period for the Constitutional Court to pronounce its final decision run, and which part of that period is not counted?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
In a practice file of this kind, we read the paper recording the day the Constitutional Court received the case, since the period is counted from that day, and any record showing when a vacancy among the justices arose and ended, since a vacancy period is excluded. The final decision itself shows the date of its pronouncement.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading takes the period the provision sets at face value: the Constitutional Court must render its final decision within the period counted from the day it received the adjudication case, so the receipt date on the file fixes the start of the clock.
Another reading turns on the proviso: where a vacancy among the justices makes it impossible for seven of them to sit, the span of the vacancy is not counted towards that period, so the file must show when the vacancy began and ended to know the date by which the decision was due.
Your judgment
If the file shows a vacancy but not the precise days it covered, how could those days be established when calculating the period set by the provision?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision is amended to change the length of the period, its starting event, or the vacancy exception, or if a Constitutional Court decision explains when a case counts as received.