The New Amendment in the Saudi Justice System No. 78 Dated 1428 According to the Latest Developments in its Implementation Mechanisms

Abstract

     This research aims to discuss the new amendment in the Saudi justice system, No. (M/78), dated 19/9/1428 AH (1/10/2007 CE), which its approval represents a comprehensive judicial renewal that dealt with the utility of the Saudi justice as a whole in attempt to keep up with the contemporary justice systems of judicial heritage. This convoying isn't, without a doubt, in adopting rules of justice as objective rules for there is no justice except by implementing the Law of Allah, the Mighty and Majestic. Certainly, it is a convoying in organizing where there is no harm in that as long as it does not violate the true Shari‘a and its goal is the development.

     Therefore, the aim of this research is to discuss the new Saudi justice system in comparison with the old one through several levels. These levels include the structural amendment by creating new courts which were not known in the previous system, such as supreme court, courts of appeals, and the specialized courts of first instance (personal status, labor, commerce, and criminal courts), as well as the functional amendment that includes the allocation of judicial conflicts through commissioning the specialized courts to  settle these conflicts. This is considered to be a quantum leap in the administration of justice as much as possible for the judge who should be specialized at the conflict to be overseen. In addition, this allocation has a great role in speeding up conflicts settlement, so that the cases will not be stacked with certain judicial bodies as was the situation in the prior justice system.

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