Legislative development in Egypt |
October 2019 PDF Version |
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Club Correspondents Eldib Advocates have notified the Club of some developments in Egypt. They have advised as follows:
“Egypt has lately seen a legislative development which will have an impact on Admiralty claims & claims related to Aviation civil law concerning the transport of goods and passengers filed before the Egyptian Courts. This involves the Economic Courts which will have jurisdiction over commercial disputes aforesaid.
The aim of establishing the economic courts is to speed up the handling of lawsuits now under their jurisdiction. In a new amendment to the law establishing the Economic Courts, the said courts will be applying different litigation process, differing from the ordinary litigation system, mainly in following points:
The law allowed the possibility of electronically filing lawsuits before economic courts and shall be coming into force as of the first of October 2019.
It is further expected that all lawsuits concerning the above mentioned laws which are presently being prosecuted before commercial courts will be referred to the Economic Courts as of the first of October 2019. On the other hand, any new lawsuit in this respect should be filed before the said court.
Furthermore, we must add that all supported documents shall be submitted before the said court at the time of filing a court case in order to be checked/validated by the preparation and mediation department.”
Our thanks to Eldib Advocates for providing this update. We list Eldib as legal correspondents in Alexandria, Cairo and Port Said.