The most important legal news in local newspapers
We in Ben Arafa Law Group Consulting & Legal Legitimacy L.L.C likes to provide you of the most important legal news in the local newspapers for this week, which related to your business and commercial, labor and procedural activities, and accordingly we provide you with the most important news as follows:
Enforceability of the Executive Regulations for Lawyers in the KSA
It is an important step towards developing the legal and professional environment in the KSA. It aims at updating the regulatory framework of lawyers’ profession according to the best international practices that reinforces the Kingdom competition and improves its business environment.
The new regulations include:
Terminating prior regulations:
Terminating the rules of seizure and filing the disciplinary claim in addition to its deliberation (issued in 1443H)
Terminating the executive regulations for licensing foreign lawyer offices (issued in 1444H)
Terminating the rules that limit conflict of interests for the individuals who have worked in the judiciary filed (issued in 1444H).
Adding new regulations:
New conditions for acceptable experience to practice the profession of lawyers
Creating new conditions for the lawyer registration and enrollment board secretariat
Regulating the cases where lawyers are transferred to the non-practitioners table.
Establishing new regulations for profession office and the mechanisms of stopping its practice
objectives of the regulations:
Improving the legal services provided to the investors and businessmen.
Reinforcing professional performance level and ensuring the quality of legal practices.
Raising awareness about professional duties and ethics
Effect of those amendments:
they will support the legal sector in the KSA, that contributes in achieving the vision of 2030, especially improving the investment environment and attracting foreign investments.
Also, regulating lawyers will contribute in raising confidence in the legal sector, whether by investors or citizens.
Public Prosecutor: Child protection system reinforcing his/her safety and health through comprehensive arrangements
The public prosecutor asserts that the system of child protection in the KSA aims at reinforcing his/ her safety and health through comprehensive arrangements in cooperation with the related authorities. The system represents an integrated legal framework for protecting the child and ensuring his/ her physical, psychological and social welfare.
The system includes:
Proactive arrangements:
Raising awareness about child rights and protection from any probable harms
Concentrating on health and dietary guidance, including natural feeding and its benefits.
Mental and physical safety:
Raising the community awareness about child safety and protection from negative effects
Protection from accidents, facing the harms of smoking, especially at pregnancy.
Media Role:
* Guiding media outlets to be a tool for raising awareness about child rights, and the risks resulted from negligence or harmful practices.
System Objectives:
Reinforcing child rights and ensuring secure and healthy environment for child
Supporting governmental efforts for protection of child risks
Cooperating with the concerned authorities to ensure the effective applicability of the system.
Those efforts aim at achieving the integration of protecting fragile groups according to the KSA vision 2030.
A Project for Analyzing Legal Judgments Issued against Governmental Authorities
The Saudi ministry of finance works for applying a project that aims at analyzing the information of judgments issued against the governmental authorities. That is according to the project of judiciary information analysis. Through that project, the ministry works for recording causes of judgments in details and working for improving related financial and legal policies and procedures.
Project objectives:
Analyzing repeated causes that result in issuing judgments against governmental authorities.
Defining legal and administrative gaps that result in judicial expenses.
Connecting judicial expenses to the balance:
* Developing the mechanisms for connecting expenses of judicial judgments with the governmental balances.
* Suggesting regulatory tool that permits the ministry to deal with the balances of the authorities that cause financial burdens to the public treasury.
3- Developing International Practices:
Benefiting from experience houses in preparing standard studies that depend on the best international practices.
Improving financial and judicial operations according to the standards of competence and sustainability.
Green Governmental Procurements
The ministry works for applying a new form of governmental procurements that reinforces environmental sustainability.
The initiative aims at transferring from the traditional type to the sustainable type at governmental projects and production.
The initiative aims at achieving the environmental goals of the KSA, according to the vision of 2030.
Role of Grievances Department
Department of grievances works neutrally to issue the judgments, including the judgments against governmental authorities.
Some ministries allocate financial allocations for judgments enforceability, while other authorities ask for support from the ministry of finance for final judgments enforceability.
Effect of the initiative:
The initiative shall improve the general expenditure competence and shall lessen financial losses resulted from administrative and legal mistakes.
Reinforcing compliance with law and regulations to avoid future judgments.
Supporting sustainable environmental objectives according to the KSA vision 2030.
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