3.5 Jurisdiction of Supreme Court

The Supreme Court (Arts 127–137): the apex court — court of record, final interpreter of the Constitution and law, chief of judicial administration; its interpretations and legal principles binding on all (Art 128 — the precedent's constitutional source); the Chief Justice and up to twenty justices (Art 129). A. Ordinary Jurisdiction Hearing the Appeal — appeals from High Court judgments and orders as law provides; PIL and interpretation questions; references from High Courts (Art 133's clauses); Correctional Jurisdiction — the Court's power to correct errors and manage causes: transfer and invitation of cases of public importance, inter-High-Court transfers for impartiality (Art 134), correction of its own ongoing/interlocutory orders (the chalu-aadesh correction practice) and the judicial-administration directives (Art 128); Review — the power to review its own decisions (heard by a different bench), on the classic grounds: error apparent, new matters, the interest of justice — rare, corrective, not a second appeal; Revision — the supervisory power to correct subordinate courts' errors of law apparent where no appeal lies — legality's patrol, not merits' re-trial. B. Extra-Ordinary Jurisdiction (Hearing of Writ Petitions) The writ jurisdiction — Art 133: (1) any Nepali citizen may petition to declare a law void (an unreasonably-restrictive or otherwise inconsistent law — including provincial-local conflicts with the federal order); (2) the extraordinary power for fundamental-rights enforcement, for…