MUSCAT: His Eminence Sayyid Khalifa bin Saeed bin Khalifa Al Busaidi, President of the Supreme Court, Vice-President of the Supreme Judicial Council and Chairman of the Administrative Affairs Council for the Judiciary, has issued Resolution No. (20/2022) defining the legal actions corresponding to judicial work.

The first article of the decision came to consider the following legal acts as equivalent to judicial work:

1. Investigation and advisory work and expressing an opinion on legal issues.
2. Preparing and reviewing contracts
3. Preparing legal research
4. Preparing and reviewing draft laws, regulations and decisions of an organisational nature
5. Notarial work at the notary public 6. Work of secretaries in courts and public prosecution
7. Work of execution minutes, and inheritance works in courts.
8. The work of the directors of the secretariats of the courts and the heads of the sessions’ affairs departments who worked in the position of a secretary or an execution record.
9. The work of the committees with judicial jurisdiction.
10. Arbitration work in civil and commercial matters.
12. Evidence-gathering and investigations carried out by police officers.

The second article stated that the work stipulated in the first article of this decision must be continuous and original, after obtaining a degree in Islamic Sharia or law from a recognised university, college or higher institute.

This decision was based on the Judicial Authority Law issued by Royal Decree No. 90/99, Royal Decree No. 10/2012 regulating the administration of judicial affairs, Ministerial Resolution No. 138/2001 defining the legal acts corresponding to judicial work, and the approval of the Judicial Administrative Affairs Council.