SJC holds meeting with UN delegation
Ameeting was held in the Supreme Judiciary Council with the participation of a number of Council judges and a United Nations delegation currently visiting Qatar, headed by the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Tendayi Achiume.
During the meeting, several topics related to the mandate of the UN Rapporteur and other related issues and ways of co-ordination and co-operation were discussed.
The SCJ Working Group reviewed the terms of reference of the Judicial Authority Act 2003, the Council’s work regulations and the mechanisms of the courts.
The members of the team, each in their specialisation, also gave an overview of the methodologies of judicial training and the consecration of the concepts of internal judicial culture that promote the culture of coexistence, social harmony and global cultural diversity, and the added services provided by the courts to foreign litigants on the basis of their right to a fair trial. Specifically with regard to the interpretation of litigants and the mechanism of distributing cases to judges and departments in order to achieve the highest levels of moral responsibility and professional value in the distribution of cases, without leaving the field even the minimum selectivity in the consideration of cases, which is in the general context adopted by Qatar and its institution under the slogan ‘everyone’s Doha’.
During the meeting, the Supreme Judiciary Council team was headed by President and Judge of the Qatari Court of Appeal Judge Ibrahim Saleh alNisf, President of Court of First Instance Judge Ayedh bin Saad al-Qahtani, Sheikha Maha alThani, and Aisha al-Emadi.