3.2 Jurisdiction of Local Judicial Bodies

The local level's justice architecture: Local-level judicial institutions under the District Court (Art 148): provincial law may create local judicial institutions to operate under the district court's umbrella — the first rung of the formal ladder; The Judicial Committees of the local level (Art 217): the Deputy Head/Deputy Mayor convening a three-member committee over cases the law entrusts — the village justice's constitutional face; the committee's reconciliation-first practice, its limited civil jurisdiction, and the appeal from its decisions to the district court — the constitution's answer to access-to- justice at the grassroots; The design logic: proximity, informality, and settlement-preference at the base; legality and appeal above — the pyramid's wide foot.