Judicial System

Judicial System in Saudi Arabia
of the Judiciary Law No. (M/78) dated 19/09/1428H
(corresponding to ...) has provided with respect to the quasijudicial
committees and tribunals that,
“The Supreme Judiciary Council shall conduct, following
commencement of work, a comprehensive study of the
status of the committees (the Committee for Settlement of
Banking Disputes, the Committee for Settlement of Disputes
of Commercial Papers and the Customs Committee) which
were exempted from the organizational arrangement of the
judiciary organs and settle any controversy and submit any
findings within a period not exceeding one year to complete
the regulatory procedure.
The jurisdiction of the quasi-judicial committees trying
any criminal, commercial or civil disputes shall be transferred
to the general courts system following the amendments
of The Regulations of Procedure before Sharia Courts,
the Criminal Procedure Regulations, and The Regulations
Procedure before the Board of Grievances.
The committee formed in the Bureau of Experts at the
Council of Ministers shall assume, within a period not
exceeding one year of the effectiveness of the Judiciary
Law, a review of the laws affected and suggest amendments
in accordance with the necessary legal procedure, and
shall study the status of the quasi-judicial committees and
tribunals that currently trying administrative disputes and
whose decisions are subject to appeal before the Board of
Grievances and suggest recommendations in that respect.
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