His Excellency Sheikh Khalid bin Ali Al Khalifa, Minister of Justice, Islamic Affairs and Endowments, valued the issuance of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, the King of the country, may God protect him, Decree No. (28) of 2021 amending some provisions of the Evidence Law in civil and commercial matters. Decree-Law No. (27) of 2021 amending some provisions of the Judicial Authority Law, and Decree-Law No. (26) of 2021 amending some provisions of the law regarding the Bahrain Chamber for Settlement of Economic, Financial and Investment Disputes.

His Excellency the Minister of Justice said that these decrees by law come within a package of priority legislation to enhance the maintenance of rights and the rule of law and to keep pace with the development requirements approved by the Council of Ministers headed by His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, may God protect him, after directing His Highness to study them. , praising the efforts that have been made to implement these legislations, as they are considered a qualitative leap in enhancing access to justice and developing judicial and judicial procedures, which is added to the group of modern legislations aimed at developing the legislative structure in the Kingdom of Bahrain, in response to the requirements of the Kingdom of Bahrain’s Economic Vision 2030, and achieving initiatives Enhancing access to justice 2021-2025.

His Excellency Sheikh Khalid stressed the importance of the new expertise project, which came in line with the development in the areas of expertise, specialized technical consultations, and international best practices in the use of expertise before the judiciary, which will contribute to reducing the period of litigation before the courts and raising the efficiency and quality of technical reports, as well as allowing litigants to benefit from Of the qualitative expertise in resolving disputes and choosing the best available specialized technical opinions, and enabling litigants to resort to expertise to prove the case, and to submit their reports when the case is filed or during its progress according to the procedural system.

On the amendment to the Judicial Authority Law; His Excellency the Minister of Justice indicated that the law allows the use of the English language in the courts if the parties agree to this in writing before filing the case, and this is within the framework of legal conditions to be determined, especially if the language of the contract is other than Arabic, which greatly reduces the cost of the litigants in translating papers. It allows them to use the language closest to the subject of their conflict to present their memoranda and arguments.

He stressed the importance of the amendment to the law of the Bahrain Chamber for Settlement of Economic, Financial and Investment Disputes, which expands the scope of the Chamber’s jurisdiction to extend to disputes between companies, in which the value of the claim exceeds five hundred thousand dinars, and the law gives powers that increase the effectiveness of the role of the delegated judge of the Bahrain Chamber for Dispute Resolution In the stage between filing a lawsuit and forming a dispute settlement body