Volunteers to provide help to troubled litigants: Dubai Courts

To enhance trust in judicial system, the Dubai Courts has launched a new initiative wherein volunteers, who have experienced financial trouble, will provide support to litigants who cannot afford experts' fees.
"A'won" or assistance has been launched to enhance the trust in the judicial system locally and internationally and to highlight role of the courts and experts in the area of community-based services.
"The Dubai Courts seeks through the initiative to help the litigants who can not afford fees of experts for the cases they file with the court," Tarish Eid Al Mansouri, Director-General of Dubai Courts, said yesterday.
It is in line with vision to make the litigants happy through providing them with services that would raise their happiness indicator, he said, while stressing the need to provide hassle-free services to those who deal with the court.

It also aims at facilitating the procedures of litigation for the customers who are unable to pay the fees and activating spirit of volunteering work of the experts, in addition to enhancing the partnership between the courts and the expert offices, Tarish said.
The experts would provide their services for the litigants in two ways depending on the type of the case and the mission assigned.

The services will be free or in return for money to be paid after a final verdict and beginning of its implementation.
The initiative covers all litigants in labour, personal status, commercial, civil and real estate cases.

The section of experts and arbitrators affairs at the cases service department of Dubai Courts will oversee the initiative in cooperation with all enrolled in the roster of experts of Dubai Courts, which is available to all experts enrolled in the courts for volunteering and to offer their services through this initiative.