Hassan Al -Sitry
It establishes the attraction and stability of foreign investment
The government referred the law firm, accompanying Decree No. (16) of 2025, to the House of Representatives, to consider it as soon as possible.
The draft law aims to develop an advanced and modern law to regulate the legal profession that reflects the cultural and social dimension, keeps pace with the requirements of sustainable development, and contributes to achieving the comprehensive development march goals that are compatible with the Kingdom’s Economic Vision 2030, and to enhance the investment environment, given that the advanced legal and justice system is one of the most important factors for attracting foreign investment.
According to the government, the issuance of a new law to regulate the legal profession has become a necessity to keep pace with developments and contribute to achieving the Bahrain vision through the development of the legal profession and its professional standards in the Kingdom and raising the efficiency of the professionals by enhancing professional competitiveness in the legal field, in order to provide legal services to the beneficiaries of it in accordance with the best modern international practices, which contributes to enhancing the investment environment as the legal and advanced legal system is considered to be considered One of the most important factors and stability of foreign investment.
The draft law – as well as the preamble – consists of eight chapters with a total of sixty -eight articles, where the first chapter was organized by general provisions, and the second chapter dealt with the organization of the general table of lawyers in terms of the method of its establishment and the types of tables that include it, the registration in it and the determination of registration fees and the transition fees between those tables, while the third chapter, its provisions were organized by the lawyer under the exercise, and the fourth chapter came with the provisions of the rights and obligations of lawyers, and the fifth chapter. For law offices, while the sixth chapter entitled for fees and judicial aid came to regulate the methods of calculating the lawyer for his fees and methods of appreciation by the court in the event of the dispute, and the seventh chapter came with the provisions and controls of disciplinary accountability and the penalties resulting from violating the law, while the eighth chapter dealt with the text on the final rulings.
According to a draft law, everyone who assaulted the integrity of the lawyer’s body, or threatens it or insulted it by reference or saying or any other method while carrying out his profession or because of it with the punishment prescribed in the law for those who commit this crime against a member of the court, and in cases of deflencies of the crime, it is not permissible to arrest the lawyer or imprison him in a precaution or to file a criminal case against him for a crime related to the law By order of the public prosecutor or who delegates him.
