DOHA: The Ministry of Justice has launched an awareness campaign on the legal professions that have been included in the Ministry’s recent projects and initiatives, which include expertise, arbitration, real estate brokerage and notary.
The campaign aims at informing the public of the various legal professions and the new services it contains, which will constitute a qualitative addition to the Qatari legal spheres, whether through legal services as well as providing Qatari citizens with new job opportunities within the Ministry of Justice strategy and plan to nationalise legal professions, QNA reported.
The Ministry said in a statement that the campaign will include advertising legal profession, indicating the means and legal controls for them, and the definition of means of communication with the administrative unit or the legal body responsible for these professions, in addition to the means to identify these professions.
Mohammed Awaidah Al-Kuwari, Director of the Ministry’s Expertise Department, said that this campaign is an important part of information about the new legal profession, which the Ministry has already started with introductory steps according to the directives of HE the Minister to inform the public about them and work to attract Qatari legal experts to these professions.
Al-Kuwari added that this campaign would contribute to the consolidation of the concept of experience as a technical work carried out by the expert, including the translation work on the basis of a judgment or order from a judicial authority or at the request of other bodies determined by the Minister, as part of law (16) of 2017 issued by the Qatari legislator to regulate the work of expertise, published in the Official Gazette on 04/10/2017.
For her part, Norah Hammoud Al Mannai, Arbitration official, stressed that this campaign confirms the objective of the Ministry, which is the comprehensive legal awareness of legal professions related to serving the public, especially the professions created under the new laws prepared by the Ministry including the Qatari Arbitration Law no. (2) of 2017, which aims to achieve the objectives of Qatar National Vision to create an environment conducive to business and investment, to keep pace with the current and future economic and investment growth of the State of Qatar and to make Qatar a regional hub for international arbitration.
