For a dispute of authority, from which events do the filing periods run, and what follows if the filing comes after them?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
In a practice file we read the written constitutional complaint itself, the court's receipt stamp on it, and any paper showing when the act or inaction said to create the ground occurred and when its holder first learned of it, since the provision turns on both dates.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading sets two outer walls at once: the application must be lodged within the period the provision sets after the day the holder learned that there was a ground, and also within the longer period after the day the ground arose, and whichever of the two expires first controls.
Another reading stresses the second paragraph, which makes both periods fixed, while the provision itself says nothing about how the file proves the day the ground was learned, which may itself be contested.
Your judgment
Where the two dates are far apart and the holder learned of the ground late, what in the record could show the day the learning occurred?
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 either period or its starting events, or if a Constitutional Court decision explains how the day the ground was learned is proved, or what effect a missed period has on a later re-filing.