The Council of Ministers adopted a resolution on the Civil Procedure Code, which includes important amendments that comply with government directives and contribute to realizing UAE vision 2021 and UAE 2071, aimed at strengthening and modernizing judicial procedures and ensuring their ease of application within the judicial system in the country.

The decision comes after concerted efforts and joint government action between the federal and local authorities within the government accelerator platform. The Ministry of Justice worked closely within 100 days with the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department, Dubai Courts, the Ras Al Khaimah Courts Department and the DIFC Courts. The Supreme Committee of Dubai Legislation, the Judicial Councils and the Military Judiciary, to draft the initial draft of the regulation.

The decision of the Council of Ministers ensures the unification of procedures and controls in all civil proceedings between all state courts, with the necessary flexibility to implement judicial decisions, in accordance with the potential and requirements of each judicial body.

The regulation aims at improving the environment and the legislative and judicial structure of the state, in a way that serves the members of the society and enhances its competitiveness on a global level. The regulation also allows for the flexible development of procedures and enhances the efficiency of the judicial system in the State, without prejudice to the essence of the basic constitutional principles, .

The regulation includes the organization of a one-day court, which aims to provide the fastest and most efficient judicial services to facilitate the community members and to expedite the separation of civil cases, up to 15 days only from the time of registration and dismissal, In order to achieve flexibility and to reduce the costs involved in the proceedings adjournment of proceedings.

The regulation took into consideration modern developments, especially the digital and technological revolution taking place in the world today, where the need to introduce modern technology in the field of justice, such as procedures for filing electronic cases or issuing verdicts and judicial orders through modern electronic means, Real and proactive in the judicial field at the regional level, reducing the cost of litigation, shortening and simplifying procedures, and strengthening contract enforcement procedures, which will have a positive impact on raising the competitiveness of the country, according to World Bank indicators.

The regulation also took into account the privacy of litigation in matters of personal status and took into consideration the social dimension of the family. The special procedures were laid down on the implementation of personal status provisions under the supervision of a competent judge in private sessions. The interests of the litigants and their privacy.

The executive regulations included increasing the quorum of the partial civil services to one million dirhams, and making the final quorum 50,000 dirhams instead of 20 thousand dirhams, so that the provisions of those constituencies that are less than that quorum may not be challenged, and the quorum of the appeals, It is not permissible to appeal against 500 thousand dirhams instead of 200 thousand dirhams, which will achieve justice by winning the litigants to final judgments in simple cases, and will reduce the burden on the shoulders of the departments and the Supreme Courts.

- Determining the procedures of a one-day court system to speed up judicial services.

- Use modern technology in the judicial system to facilitate and speed up procedures.