The Palace of Justice in Brussels was designed by Joseph Poelaert, who worked from 1860, and then Joseph Joachim Benoît from 1879 to 1883. The Belgian government is the client. The infobox and text give October 31, 1866 as the start and October 15, 1883 as the inauguration. They conflict on Poelaert's start, with the infobox saying 1860 and the text saying he was appointed in 1861.
The article calls the style eclectic, Greco-Roman inspired with Assyro-Babylonian and Egyptian borrowings. It measures 525 by 492 feet (160 by 150 m). The infobox gives a height of 116 m, but the text says the dome is 105 m.
The cupola was destroyed at the end of World War II and rebuilt higher in 1947 and 1948. Renovations have run since 1984. It houses the Court of Cassation, the Brussels Court of Appeal and other courts. The article gives no hours.
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