Judicial System

Judicial System in Saudi Arabia
Many laws and regulations were issued regulating
judicial work, courts and specialized circuits were launched
in many courts premises which contributed to prompt
deciding of disputes. The Supreme Judicial Council tried
to mitigate the damage caused by shortage of judges by
approving the “weighting of cases” project which is an
international standard adopted by many advanced countries.
The project was approved following the comprehensive
survey of the operation of the first instance courts made
by the General Administration of the Courts Affairs and
prepared an integrated data base of the size of work in
each court with respect to number of cases, number of
judicial offices, whether vacant or occupied, to consider
requests/ applications for increasing the number of offices
in a practical and proper way in a manner that observe the
number of cases referred to each court and to each circuit,
and as well observing the types of these cases; this will have
a huge effect in determining these steps and procedures.
The idea of this project and its main objective is to list
the types of cases/ disputes brought before courts, classifying
them and determining the average time for considering
them in order to determine an accurate criteria specifying
the number of judges needed for each court pursuant to that
criteria and according to the works of each court to achieve
fairness and balance throughout the Kingdom based on the
decided cases in quality and quantity and the time normally
required, and as well this will serve making an estimate of
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