Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court said on Tuesday it had overruled President Mohammed Morsi's decision to recall the Islamist-led parliament dissolved by the country's generals last month.

The ruling heightened a confrontation between the newly elected head of state and an establishment that once served the man he replaced, ousted President Hosni Mubarak.

The court ruled on June 14 that the electoral laws in place during the parliamentary elections are unconstitutional. The Supreme Military Council has been ruling in Egypt since the revolution dissolved the parliament two days after the verdict. Morsi then issued a decree earlier this week to recall the parliament, which met on Tuesday.

"The court ruled to halt the president's decision to recall the parliament," the head of the constitutional court, Judge Maher el-Beheiry, said in court.

The detailed ruling, published by Egyptian state media, said the court's verdicts were final, could not be appealed and that both its rulings and their interpretations are binding on "all the state's authorities and everyone."

In addition, it said its June 14 decision had declared "the whole [lower house of] parliament void" because the election was based on unconstitutional laws. It added that parliament was "non-existent by the power of the law since that date, without the need to take any other measure."

It described Morsi's decision to recall the parliament as an "obstacle that stands against the execution of the previous verdict of the constitutional court."

The Brotherhood had said it accepted the June 14 ruling, but challenged the army's decision to dissolve parliament, saying it should be allowed to continue work until a new one is elected after a new constitution is written and passed by referendum.