Mansour bin Zayed issues a decision to establish the Abu Dhabi Family Court
His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Presidential Affairs, and Head of the Judicial Department in Abu Dhabi, issued a decision to establish the Abu Dhabi Family Court, civil and administrative lawsuits, to be competent to hear requests and cases related to personal status, civil and administrative lawsuits and rental disputes, within the framework of Enhancing the effectiveness and sustainability of judicial processes and ensuring efficient litigation.
The Undersecretary of the Judicial Department in Abu Dhabi, Counselor Youssef Saeed Al-Abri, confirmed that the expansion of the establishment of specialized courts enhances the leading position of the judicial system in Abu Dhabi at the regional and global levels, by providing an integrated system that allows easy access to completed justice, through a comprehensive package of advanced services that include Excellence and effectiveness in an independent judicial system.
He added that lawsuits related to the family enjoy great privacy in light of what the UAE pays attention to everything that would preserve the stability of the family and ensure family cohesion in society, and from this standpoint the Judicial Department is keen to provide an environment supportive of this approach, in a way that guarantees the effectiveness and efficiency of litigation. .
In detail, the decision to establish the court specified its competencies to hear requests and cases related to personal status, civil and administrative lawsuits and rental disputes, provided that it is formed from partial and college primary circuits and appeals departments, and the rental dispute settlement committees are affiliated with them, and the departments of this court may be divided according to the type of cases presented to it. It shall consist of a president and a sufficient number of judges, bailiffs and administrative staff to carry out the necessary administrative, clerical and technical work.
The decision stipulated that one or more of its judges shall be delegated at the seat of the court to rule on a temporary basis, without prejudice to the origin of the right in urgent matters, whenever they fall within the jurisdiction of the court, and the judge shall also have the authority to issue orders on petitions, temporary orders and performance orders, whenever they are related to issues within The jurisdiction of the same court, regardless of its value, and in the event of a refusal to issue a performance order, the refusal must be justified, and the procedures stipulated in the regulations for Federal Law No. 11 of 1992 regarding the Civil Procedure Law are followed.
The jurisdiction of the partial judge, the head of the general civil department, the head of the personal status department, or the head of the rent dispute settlement committees that consider the case, as the case may be, has been determined to issue orders on petitions and the temporary orders related to them, while the appellate circuits are competent to hear appeals by appealing against the judgments of the primary circuits and orders. Issued by the judge of urgent matters.
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