Saudi Arabia’s Consultative Assembly, also known as Shura Council, has approved a system which aims in its most prominent clauses to limit vexatious claims and urge conciliation, documentation and proof of transactions and contracts.
Despite the new system applying to all the cases and requests submitted to the courts in Saudi Arabia, it excludes a number of cases.
Excluded cases are general criminal lawsuits, lawsuits pertaining to personal status courts, and lawsuits and requests that concern the Board of Grievances.
The system ensures that judicial costs do not exceed one million riyals.
Prisoners and detainees are exempt from paying judicial fees in financial cases so long that the case doesn’t involve a crime.
All case parties are also exempt from the costs if reconciliation is achieved before the first session is filed.
Parties in cases of special rights that are brought by extension to criminal cases, if they ended in conciliation, are also exempt.
