Editing Legal system of Macau (section)

==Judicial system==
The courts of the Macau SAR are structured in three levels and have final power of adjudication, except in very narrow areas. The [[Court of Final Appeal (Macau)|Court of Final Appeal]] has three judges, and the [[Court of Second Instance]] has five judges. Trial by jury is foreseen in the law, but is not used.

Prior to 1991, Macau judicial system was a sub-judiciary district (''Comarca de Macau'') of the judicial framework of the Portuguese legal system and was affiliated to the [[Judiciary of Portugal#Judicial courts|Judiciary District of Lisbon]] (''Distrito Judicial de Lisboa'').<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unesco.org.mo/eng/law/4judicialSystem.html |title=Brief Introduction of Judicial System of Macao |accessdate=2006-09-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060430035340/http://www.unesco.org.mo/eng/law/4judicialSystem.html |archivedate=30 April 2006 }}</ref>

By 2018 none of the criminal court judges were Portuguese. In 2018 [[Reuters]] stated: "Courts have largely stopped providing Portuguese translations."<ref name=ReutersPortel>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-macau-china-law/in-macau-portuguese-elites-feel-squeezed-out-by-chinese-influence-idUSKCN1MF0OQ|title=In Macau, Portuguese elites feel squeezed out by Chinese influence|work=[[Reuters]]|date=2018-10-05|accessdate=2021-02-12}}</ref>