Sint Maarten is the only country in the Kingdom of the Netherlands with a constitutional court.

The Council of State of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Common Court of Justice of Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, and of Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba each nominate one of their judges as a member and deputy member of the court.

[9] A complete recast of the Criminal Code was approved in 2012 and the ombudsman requested evaluation of the Act in January 2013.

As this was the first case of the court, in its decision ECLI:NL:OCHM:2013:3 it first laid down certain points of departure regarding its evaluation consisting of 5 points:[10] The Ombudsman had made seven complaints regarding the law,[11] which were dealt with in ECLI:NL:OCHM:2013:2 Thus the Court held complaints 1, 2, 5, and 6 to be well founded.

[10] The National Ordinance for the establishment of the Integrity Chamber was approved by the Parliament of Sint Maarten, after considerable pressure from the Netherlands.