Report: Qatar’s court cleared 80 percent of cases filed last year
Some 81,169 cases were brought before the courts in 2013, and decisions were made on about 66,020 of them, according to Supreme Judicial Council figures.
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Emir doubles allowances of local prosecutors, judges
In a move apparently aimed at bolstering the country’s judiciary, benefit packages for judges, judicial assistants, and Qatari members of the public prosecution have been increased to 120 percent of their salaries by…
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Qatari poet Ibn Al-Dheeb’s life sentence reduced to 15 years on appeal
Story updated at 19:30 with new comments from Qatar’s Attorney General Reporting by Julia Mills The Court of Appeal in Doha today reduced the life sentence of jailed Qatari Poet Mohammed…
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Legal community pushes to revamp Qatar’s court system as backlog grows
The Peninsula ran a series of articles over the weekend about a growing push in the legal community to improve Qatar’s backlogged court system. Part of the problem, the newspaper…
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