Dutch in Belgium Belgium has come to be known as "Flemish". Flemish is also used to refer to one of the historical languages spoken in the former County of Flanders. Linguistically and formally, "Flemish" refers to the region, culture and people of (North) Belgium or Flanders. Flemish people speak (Belgian) Dutch in Flanders, the Flemish part of Belgium. The Brussels-Capital Region is officially bilingual French-Dutch. This means that Dutch should be on an equal footing with French, which is often not the case at local Brussels level: in many municipal and regional services, hospitals, public transport, but also in shops and offices Dutch
Judiciary of Belgium and Court of First Instance where it is unclear which court is competent for the respective case. Legal help can be obtained from a House of Justice ("Justitiehuis / Maison de justice"), of which there is one in each judicial arrondissement and 2 in the arrondissement of Brussels (a Dutch- and French-speaking one). The Constitutional Court ("Grondwettelijk Hof / Cour constitutionelle") is a special court mainly for conflicts between the federal level and regional level and was created as part of the federalisation of the country. The government of Belgium also has a lot of administrative courts, of which the