The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department announced that it would be able to end 915 criminal cases with "reconciliation" between the parties involved, this year, noting that the Criminal Justice Initiative translated the methodology of tolerance pursued by the department and the state.
According to the department, the “Penal Peace” initiative is one of the distinguished initiatives that reflects its vision and what is included in the legislation and laws in an invitation to tolerance, through its provisions and materials that allow the litigants to end the dispute in an amicable way, and to settle, whether through reaching through degrees of litigation, or at a stage After the issuance of the ruling, with the aim of providing the opportunity for reaching and finding solutions that contribute to preserving the unified social fabric, without prejudice to the legal right.
She pointed out that the penal conciliation succeeded in achieving four main goals, namely, the speedy settlement of criminal cases, the reduction of the burden on the courts, the simplification of litigation procedures, and the shortening of time, effort and expenses on the parties to the criminal case.
The department indicated that Decree Law No. 17 of 2018 amending some provisions of the Penal Procedures Law No. 35 of 1992 and its amendments put new procedures in the name of “criminal conciliation”, permitting the Public Prosecution or the competent court, as the case may be, to take criminal reconciliation procedures.
The department indicated that the procedures for criminal reconciliation come according to an agreement between the victim, his agent, his heirs or their own agent and the accused, to end the dispute in criminal matters amicably, and the reconciliation results in the termination of the criminal lawsuit or the suspension of the implementation of the ruling issued therein, follow-up that reconciliation is permissible in any A case in which the lawsuit was required, even after the issuance of the judgment.
She stated that the victim, his representative, his heirs or their private agent may prove reconciliation with the accused before the Public Prosecution or the Court, as the case may be, in the misdemeanors and violations stipulated in the articles of the Federal Penal Code, which number 28, and in other cases provided for by law.
She noted that, according to Article 349, the Public Prosecution, if the victim or his heirs did not initiate reconciliation with the accused before the accused was brought to the criminal trial, to present the reconciliation to the accused and the victim, after informing the accused of his crime, its evidence and punishment, and the reparation of the damage caused to the victim And the period of reaching the aforementioned conciliation is 15 days, and it may be extended to a similar period.
It indicated that if reconciliation efforts were unsuccessful, the criminal case would be disposed of in accordance with the law and the procedures followed for referring the case, and if the victim or his agent accepted the reconciliation with the accused, he would prepare a report of the reconciliation in which the contents of the agreement of the parties would be confirmed and approved by the Public Prosecution member, after signing it From his limbs.