Supreme Constitutional Court review of the legislative omission in Egypt in light of international experiences

Abstract

This study examined the concept of legislative omission and distinguished it from several similar concepts. It also showed the reasons for its occurrence and analyzed the conditions that must be met for the phenomenon to be considered a legislative omission. Furthermore, the study reviewed some international experiences related to the judicial constitutional oversight of the practice of legislative omission. The study concluded that some countries regulate constitutional judicial review over legislative omission by the provisions of the constitution and other countries by the provisions of the law.

Keywords

• Legislative omission
• Legislative inadequacies
• Infiltration from jurisdiction
• Non-negative jurisdiction
• Legislative abstention
• Legislative silence