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J/Mohamed Mubark Al Suboosi
Chief Justice, Commercial Court
Commercial Court
One of the specialized courts of rst instance. It represents the UAE in the Enforcement of Contracts category in the World’s Bank’s Doing Business report, which ranked Dubai in the 9th place internationally in 2019 and the 1st place regionally for the fourth consecutive year. The Commercial Court has jurisdiction over commercial cases wherein the plaintiffs aim to protect legal centers nancial or corporate rights arising from business or commercial transactions, by virtue of
their nature, or by virtue of profession, or arising from commercial disposals and transactions.
The past year saw the registration of 7,775 cases with this court, alongside notable progress across all indicators compared with 2017.
As for the most important achievements of the Court last year, it worked with the Accelerators Team to prepare and submit the «Regulations for the Civil Procedure Code» for the re-engineering of the judicial procedures endorsed by the Council of Ministers on 9/12/2019. Its key component is changing the litigation approach in the enforcement of commercial contracts from conventional litigation to swift litigation, in line with the principles set out by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, especially the second principle (no one above the law) which states that «the delay in justice is unjust», so the updated judicial proceedings included a number of aspects that would make use of modern technology in judicial work, and the identi cation of controls that would contribute to speeding up the work without compromising the quality of the judgments, as discussed in detail in Chapter One of this report on the Government Accelerators Team initiative.
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Chapter 2: Performance Indicators