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The judiciary . Stage 1 :
• District courts and the Supreme Court perform their current functions until the establishment of regional courts and the Court of Appeal .
• Redistribution of functions and reorganisation of the Supreme Court .
Stage 2 :
• The entire judiciary system provided for in the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania and the Law on Courts starts functioning ;
• The main function of the Supreme Court is to hear cases under the cassation procedure .
Regulatory framework for civil and family relationships : 1 ) Concept of the civil , commercial and family law system ; 2 ) Codified acts governing civil , commercial and family relationships ; 3 ) International conventions governing civil relationships ; 4 ) Convention on International Commercial Arbitration and the relevant laws of the Republic of Lithuania .