Sheikh Saud Issues Decree Reconstituting RAK Lawyers Affairs Committee

H.H. Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi,
Crown Prince and Deputy Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah

Ras Al Khaimah, Nov 5: H.H. Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Crown Prince and Deputy Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, has issued an Emiri Decree reconstituting the Lawyers Affairs Committee in the emirate.

According to Emiri Decree 14 of 2009, issued pursuant to the Law of Organizing of Legal Profession of 2004, a new 7- member committee has been formed under the chairmanship of Ahmed Al Khatri, Chairman of RAK Courts Department.

The other members of the Lawyers Affairs Committee are M. Naji Derbala, Judge of RAK Cassation Court, Jihad Quzmar, Legal Advisor to the Government of Ras Al Khaimah, Ahmed H. Hamdan, President in the RAK Appeals Court, Ahmed Saleh Al Shehhi, Attorney General, Hasan Muhaimed, Judge and Acting Director General of RAK Courts Department and Nada Mohammad Dallak, a female lawyer practicing in the emirate.

The Committee has been tasked to organize the lawyers' profession in the emirate, including the registration of lawyers and conduct of their advocacy affairs before the RAK Courts. It will have the mandate to ensure good performance of legal practice in the emirate as laid out in the Lawyers' Profession Law of 2004 and to raise the levels of legal service standards. As per the decree, the committee will also have the right to grant special permission to one or more lawyers from foreign countries, who are not registered in the local Lawyers Register, to conduct a trial in one or more cases at the RAK Courts.

The committee has a renewable tenure or two years.