Arab News, Sunday, Dec 26, 2021 | Jumada Al-Uola 21, 1443
Saudi Justice Ministry’s Scientific Judicial Portal gets 13 million hits
Saudi Arabia: The
Ministry of Justice said the number of visits to its Scientific Judicial Portal
had exceeded 13 million since it was launched in August, while the number of
searches for judgments reached more than 10 million.
The ministry said the portal, which is an interactive digital platform and a
judicial and legal database, includes around 46,000 judicial documents.
Bashar Al-Mufda, who is director general of the research center that oversees
the portal project, said the platform gave the public, including the parties in
a case and lawyers, easy access to final commercial rulings issued by courts of
the first instance, appeal courts and the Supreme Court, in addition to other
legal documents.
The portal targets judges, the parties involved in
legal proceedings, lawyers, prosecutors, assistant judges, academics, and
graduate students.
He said the platform also aimed to promote justice
and transparency, provide a unified electronic platform for judicial
information, boost the judicial and academic community’s knowledge, and enrich
the justice culture of society.
Al-Mufda said the portal was characterized by its
accuracy, objective classification, arranging judgments with technical
presentation templates, and modern presentation methods to guarantee ease of use
and browsing, and the flexibility of navigating between the portal’s pages.
The ministry is also seeking to publish
agreements, orders, decisions, scientific research, regulations and circulars,
and other legal documents in the future.
The portal’s content is divided into six main
sections: The monthly report on the development of laws, regulations, and
circulars; the criminal procedure system; the legal pleading system and its
executive regulations; bankruptcy provisions; the judgments of the commercial
departments of the Supreme Court; and the decisions of commercial courts.