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Federal Supreme Court - Commercial Appeal No. 1155 of 2024 on Material Error Correction

Status

In force

Issuing Authority

Federal Supreme Court

Effective date

XX.XX.XXXX

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Session of Wednesday, 18 December 2024

Headed by Judge Shihab Abdulrahman Al Hammadi, “Head of the Department” with the membership of Judges Al-Hassan Ibn Al-Arabi Faidi and Dawood Ibrahim Abul Shawarib

 

- Civil Procedures ‘Judgements: Correction of judgements and their interpretation. Signature of the presiding judge on the correction.

 

- Correction of material errors in a court decision or judgment is permissible, provided that it is signed only by the presiding judge. The basis for that is Article 137 of the Civil Procedure Law states that the challenged judgement shall be corrected and signed by the rightmember of the Chamber. Error requiring cassation.

 

Commercial Appeal No. 1155 of 2024, session of December 18, 2024 

According to the first paragraph of Article 137 of the Civil Procedure Law, ‘The court may, by a decision issued at the request of one of the litigants or on its own initiative without pleading, correct purely material clerical or arithmetic errors in its decision or judgement. The correction may be made on the decision or judgement subject to correction and shall be signed...