04-12-11, 09:08 PM
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Women lawyers call for expediting rules to streamline their practice
JEDDAH: Saudi women lawyers have launched a campaign to urge the Justice Ministry to expedite the issuance of rules and regulations to professionalize their work.
They said the ministry has been studying these regulations for too long.
Bayan Zahran, the Saudi lawyer leading the campaign, told Arab News the lawyers were not accusing the ministry of any slackness but were hoping that it would issue the rules very soon.
“Saudi women lawyers have been working in the courts for many years. They have been doing this work through representation but without formal licenses,” she said. “Working in this way and without official licenses is detrimental to the profession,” she added.
Zahran said women who graduate from law schools could not find any place for training, unlike their male counterparts.
“Women lawyers cannot open legal offices as such a step would require a formal license to practice law in addition to three years of experience,” she explained.
Bayan said there were more than 2,000 women graduates from law colleges in addition to a large number of students.
“All these graduates are not able to find legal jobs because the government departments with legal sections are not yet ready to employ them,” she said.
Bayan hoped the new rules professionalizing the work of women lawyers would include steps to find employment for them in government departments, especially those with a large number of women employees such as the health and education ministries.
Director of the ministry’s department of lawyers Sheikh Abdullah Al-Juwair said a study on the organization of the work of female lawyers had been completed and would soon be approved.
He said under the new regulations, women lawyers would be allowed to open offices for legal and Shariah consultancy and to appear before courts, especially in cases involving women.
“Many women would shy away from going to legal offices manned entirely by men, so opening women legal offices would solve their problem,” he said.
Source: Arab News
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