His Excellency Sheikh Khalid bin Ali Al Khalifa, Minister of Justice, Islamic Affairs and Endowments, issued a decision approving the application of the electronic system to labor cases, within the framework of launching the service of filing civil lawsuits of all kinds and degrees electronically.

According to the decision on the procedures for labor lawsuits and the use of electronic means in them, labor lawsuits related to individual labor disputes are filed by the approved means for filing a lawsuit, including electronic means, according to a bylaw submitted to the Labor Case Administration Office.

According to the decision, the litigants can submit requests, documents and notes electronically, including portfolios of documents with evidence that he relies on in his defense, notes of defense and defense, request to hear witnesses, a statement of facts that he wants to prove with the testimony of witnesses and the names and addresses of witnesses, request for expert assignment, and a statement of issues What is meant to be proven by experience, the names of the experts who wish to hear their technical opinion, the request for denial or allegation of forgery, the request to compel the other litigant in the case to present the documents in his possession, and the request to oblige the administrative authorities to provide what they may have of information or documents, and to compel others to show He is in possession of or obtained from things, and a request to interrogate the litigants, a request for directing the decisive oath and a statement of the facts that he wants his opponent to swear in, the wording of the oath, and a request for an inspection.

Regarding the announcement of the litigants in the labor case, the decision indicated that the plaintiff will announce the date of the first meeting set for hearing the case before the Labor Case Administration judge when the lawsuit is filed, and the defendant shall announce the date of this meeting and a copy of the lawsuit’s list as soon as it is submitted to the Labor Case Administration office. From them, the last meeting set for consideration before the Labor Case Administration judge at the session set for it before the High Civil Court, the announcement by electronic means is considered a product of its effects from the date it is sent to the advertiser.

The decision stated that the High Civil Court may issue judgments in labor lawsuits by electronic means without the need to deposit their drafts and save them in the case file, and the verdict shall be pronounced immediately after the conclusion of the trial, if possible, otherwise in another session appointed for this purpose, by reciting its words in an open session, or by publishing it. By electronic means in the courtroom and the electronic system on the day specified for the pronouncement hearing.