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cases mostly related to group cases and sometimes individual cases. More than 200 workers have bene ted from the initiative, which resulted in the reduction of litigation duration, the happiness of litigation parties, decrease of customer numbers, reduction of administrative burden, etc.
- Remote litigation initiative: This initiative was launched at GITEX 2018 in collaboration with the Ministry of Human Resources, becoming the rst court to implement remote litigation based on modern visual technologies, the rst of its kind in the UAE. The initiative aims to complete the trial in one day (one-day trial), and it will be renamed to the Department of Tolerance as it aims to implement the principles of tolerance and end up in reconciliation between the litigators. This initiative includes a number of sub-initiatives such as remote hearings i.e. remote criminal trials, pleading preparation, i.e. communication between the pleading preparation team and attorneys to complete all necessary procedures without visiting the court, Thura, i.e. live broadcast of civil execution hearings, Qareeb, i.e. the documentation of testimonies using smart devices, and amicable settlement of con icts through video calls.
- We Announce for You initiative: This initiative was launched in 2017 and is still ongoing. About 3,000 free announcement
were published under this initiative in cooperation with a newspaper.
- Oun initiative: This was initiated in cooperation with the experts section at the Courts, whereby experts are assigned against no charge for some labor cases.
- Enforceable Rulings initiative In cases where the claim is lower than AED 20,000, execution takes place once the ruling is issues. Such cases may not be appealed with some exceptions. The litigation term was cut to 31 days.
- Model Pleading initiative: This initiative was launched in 2017 and continued in 2018. It is a model pleading for labor cases which was adopted throughout the UAE courts in cooperation with the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratization, thus reducing costs for workers.
- Labor Litigation Fess Handbook: This was prepared in collaboration with the Labor Section and distributed in three languages: Arabic, English and Urdu.
It is noteworthy that the Labor Court was rst court to outsource the registration of labor cases to service centers, thus facilitating the litigation procedures to litigants and reducing the number of visitors to the court, which actively seeks to utilize more technology and automate its services completely in the near future, especially with the relocation planned for 2019.
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