Session on Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Headed by Mr Judge / Ahmed Abdullah Al Mulla, "Head of the Department"
and the membership of Judges Mohammed Ahmed Abdul Qadir and Al Tayeb Abdul Ghafour Abdul Wahab.
(1-3) Criminal Procedures ‘Appeals against judgements. Appeals of an adversarial judgement.’ ‘Trial Procedures: Adversarial judgement’.
1. Timeframe for Filing an Appeal is fifteen days from the date of announcing the adversarial judgement. The basis for that is Article 234/1 of the Criminal Procedure Law.
2. The adversarial judgement and its nature.
3. Proof that the Appellant appeared before the Court of First Instance via videoconferencing in two sessions in which his arguments were heard and his defence was presented. The decision against him is an adversarial decision and the time limit for appealing it applies from the day following the date of its announcement. The Appellant filed his appeal after the deadline for appeal had passed without providing evidence or proof that a compelling excuse or obstacle prevented him from filing the appeal within the legal time limit, which means t...