UAE – Dubai launches online case registration service

June 2013

DUBAI Courts Department (DCD) has become the first in the Middle East to launch an online programme that enables its clients to register civil cases electronically. The newly-launched service came at a high commendation by DCD’s primary strategic partners, the lawyers, who said cases’ online registration saves time and money and boosts the judicial workflow.

DCD’s Director General Dr. Ahmad Bin Hazeem Al Suwaidi launched the online case registration service along two other services during a gala ceremony last month.

The three services provide DCD’s clients with the facility for online case registration, access to the archive of case files, and free legal advice. DCD’s heads of courts and sections along with lawyers and members of the judicial industry attended the official launching ceremony.

During the ceremony Dr. Al Suwaidi stressed on the importance of the strategic partnership between DCDs and law firms in Dubai and which aims to achieve justice and assist in the task of litigants to access their rights. The first-of-its-kind in the Middle East, this service allows law firms and all litigants to register cases electronically, record every detail, upload identification papers, and send them to Dubai Courts online, said Dr. Al Suwaidi. DCD’s Director General said the programme was set on trial on February 1 and becomes mandatory on June 1 so that all cases can be registered online from anywhere in the world.

Unveiling the second programme, Dr. Al Suwaidi said it allows plaintiffs to access the file archive online and print their cases, judgments, decisions and other information, without the need to visit the Courts to acquire these papers.

The Director General said DCD, in collaboration with its strategic partners the Dubai-based law firms, has launched a free legal advice programme titled ‘Sure’, where volunteering lawyers can offer free legal consultations to litigants.