MoJ’s
Initiatives
Administrative Support and Organization in Courts
Initiative Status: Completed
This initiative focuses on enhancing administrative and operational procedures and standardizing claim registration processes. These improvements are designed to facilitate faster hearings, achieve prompt justice, elevate operational efficiency in courts, and boost client satisfaction with judicial services.
Activating the Conciliation System
Initiative Status: Completed
The goal of this initiative is to resolve various disputes by establishing an integrated system that offers conciliation services for settling disputes between parties.
Integrated Case Management System
Initiative Status: Completed
This initiative seeks to achieve a comprehensive digital transformation of all litigation procedures by automating the entire system.
Establishment of the Unified Translation Center
Initiative Status: Completed
An integrated translation center has been established to provide remote interpreting services during court hearings, serving all Saudi courts and judicial facilities.
Implementing the Judicial Costs Law
Initiative Status: Completed
This initiative aims to reduce the number of lawsuits brought to court by implementing preventive measures to minimize disputes. Additionally, it develops models, procedures, and mechanisms for managing and paying litigation fees.
Integrated Enforcement System
Initiative Status: Completed
The goal of this initiative is to enhance the enforcement judiciary system by creating centralized units for administrative, procedural, and financial operations across the Kingdom. It also focuses on technical developments in systems and infrastructure to support these activities.
Establishment of Judicial Service Centers
Initiative Status: Completed
This initiative focuses on applying best practices to improve client experience and developing a system for providing judicial services. It includes operating a unified call center and monitoring performance in judicial operations rooms, assisting decision-makers with accurate, real-time data. This also helps reduce client traffic at other judicial facilities, enhance service quality, and increase client satisfaction.
Mobile Notary Office
Initiative Status: Completed
This initiative provides notarization services to individuals who are elderly, disabled, ill, or incarcerated, by deploying a mobile team of notaries across Saudi regions. The services are delivered according to a system overseen by the Ministry.
Engaging the Private Sector in Notarial Activities
Initiative Status: Completed
The aim of this initiative is to license private sector entities to perform certain notarization tasks typically handled by public notaries, such as issuing powers of attorney, conveying real estate, and notarizing articles of association.
Electronic Payment in the Enforcement of Judgments
Initiative Status: Completed
This initiative enables the payment of financial obligations arising from enforcement court decisions through the SADAD e-payment system (a Saudi Central Bank system), eliminating the need for checks or cash. It enhances financial oversight through specialized work systems connected to the Ministry's platforms.
Engaging the Private Sector in Activities Supporting the Enforcement Judiciary
Initiative Status: Completed
The initiative licenses private sector entities to undertake specific enforcement activities under the supervision of the enforcement judiciary, helping to improve work quality and expedite procedures for cases submitted to enforcement courts.
Real Estate Title Digitization
Initiative Status: On Track
The goal of this initiative is to digitize all real estate documents, including records, reports, and transactions at judicial authorities. It also aims to digitalize the processes for real estate titles.
Integrated Notarization System
Initiative Status: Completed
This initiative involves the complete digitization of the notarial system, covering powers of attorney, declarations, probate certifications, articles of association, and property notarizations. Additionally, it aims to automate all administrative and ICT operations supporting notarization while providing statistical reports to inform decision-making.
Establishment of the Support and Liquidation Center
Initiative Status: Completed
The Support and Liquidation Center is tasked with liquidating estates, bankrupt companies, real estate funds, and distressed real estate partnerships. It handles cases referred by government and judicial authorities or directly by concerned parties, following regulatory procedures and international best practices.
Implementation of Child Custody and Visitation Rulings (Shaml)
Initiative Status: Completed
This initiative aims to establish centers for implementing child custody and visitation rulings, enhancing service quality while safeguarding family privacy and children's rights. The centers work in collaboration with the non-profit sector to provide appropriate environments for these rulings.
Raising the Kingdom’s Global Ranking of the Judicial System According to the World Bank
Initiative Status: Completed
This initiative focuses on improving the Ministry's internal procedures and regulations directly related to the Kingdom’s global judicial ranking. It aims to enhance service quality for citizens and foreign investors by aligning with international standards recommended by the World Bank.
Development of the Commercial, Labor, and Appeals Judicial Systems
Initiative Status: Completed
This initiative designs a performance management program for courts to shorten litigation timelines while ensuring high-quality judicial output. It also enhances client service and improves the court work environment by implementing a unified standard identity across courts.
Upgrading Judicial Buildings
Initiative Status: Completed
This initiative focuses on enhancing the quality and operational efficiency of judicial buildings through a strategic vision developed in partnership with the private sector.
Highlighting the Saudi Judiciary and Spreading Legal Culture
Initiative Status: Completed
This initiative aims to showcase the positive aspects of the Saudi judiciary and promote legal awareness through media strategies and public education programs.
Utilizing the ICT infrastructure
Initiative Status: Completed
This initiative leverages available data to develop quality services for various clients, improve infrastructure, and unify judicial databases, ultimately enhancing the services provided.
Developing the Legislative System and Its Tools
Initiative Status: On Track
This initiative aims to develop the judicial system's legislative environment by adopting best practices for creating high-quality legislation that aligns with the national transformation program and Saudi Vision 2030.
Judicial Quality
Initiative Status: On Track
This initiative focuses on implementing judicial quality standards, ensuring consistency between rulings and legislation, and providing the necessary support for subject-matter expertise. This enhances the overall quality of judicial rulings.
Establishing and Activating the System for Managing and Enforcing Enforcement Documents and Claims
Initiative Status: On Track
This initiative aims to improve justice and rights recovery by implementing mechanisms and procedures for managing and enforcing enforcement documents and contracts.
Developing New Technologies and AI in the Judicial System
Initiative Status: Completed
This initiative emphasizes enhancing the use of advanced technologies to improve services and reduce litigation timelines, thereby increasing client satisfaction with judicial services.
Developing Judicial Knowledge Enablers
Initiative Status: On Track
The initiative seeks to promote justice by offering digital services for accessing laws, regulations, and judgments in multiple languages, thus improving service quality.
Developing the System for Legal Preparation of Claims
Initiative Status: Completed
This initiative enhances claim preparation services by refining legal procedures that support court activities and boost operational efficiency.
Activation of the Judicial Data Management System
Initiative Status: Completed
This initiative establishes a comprehensive judicial data management system, including strategy development, data governance, and the creation of an electronic data system.
Inmate Services System
Initiative Status: On Track
This initiative aims to streamline judicial services for inmates, including notarial and enforcement services, by providing an efficient model for easy access.
Developing Judicial Policies in Line with the Values of Justice and Transparency
Initiative Status: Completed
This initiative focuses on creating clear public policies that reflect justice and transparency within the judiciary, enforcement, notarial and ADR services, aligned with best practices.
Enhancing Commitment to Legal Frameworks that Achieve Justice Values
Initiative Status: Completed
This initiative is designed to strengthen the commitment of justice sector activities and operations to the legal frameworks set by laws and regulations. It aims to bolster the values of justice and transparency represented by these frameworks.
Supporting and Activating the Digital Justice System
Initiative Status: On Track
The objective of this initiative is to enhance the digital justice system by developing strategies to support the Ministry’s activities. It also focuses on implementing a flexible system for judicial e-services within a secure cloud environment.
Implementing the Preventive Justice System
Initiative Status: On Track
This initiative aims to implement preventive justice by raising awareness, enforcing preventive justice mechanisms through rules and legislation to reduce disputes, and ensuring that contracts and procedures are reliable without requiring litigation.
Enhancing Legal Expertise and Developing International Judicial Cooperation
Initiative Status: On Track
The goal of this initiative is to strengthen international judicial cooperation and enhance the capabilities of the Kingdom’s representatives in promoting justice and transparency, thereby reinforcing the Kingdom’s commitment to these values.
Judicial Services for People with Disabilities
Initiative Status: Completed
This initiative aims to provide tailored services for clients with disabilities, offering assistance and addressing their inquiries effectively.
Establishing an Independent Conciliation Entity and Optimizing Conciliation Activities
Initiative Status: Completed
This initiative focuses on establishing an independent entity that acts as a unified platform for conciliation and amicable settlements within the Kingdom. It also seeks to standardize conciliation procedures and documents, integrating them with the “Taradhi” platform to enhance preventive justice.
Achieving Quality in Judicial Skill Building
Initiative Status: On Track
The initiative aims to improve the legal, knowledge, and professional capabilities of members within the judicial system, contributing to significant progress in the quality of judicial services.
Digitization of Judicial Documents
Initiative Status: On Track
This initiative focuses on digitizing and archiving all judicial documents, including those related to the judiciary, real estate, notarization, enforcement, articles of association, and probate notarization. The initiative involves converting over 300 million paper documents into digital records.
Development and Preparation of the Real Estate Data Structure for the Real Estate Market Platform
Initiative Status: On Track
The initiative aims to restructure real estate data within the Real Estate Market platform by organizing it into governed and classified categories according to best practices. The initiative ensures that all necessary information for real estate transactions is clearly presented, while also linking real estate databases to relevant entities to prevent data duplication or conflicts.
Developing Financial Services for the Justice System
Initiative Status: On Track
The initiative seeks to enhance and streamline financial services within the justice system by establishing specialized units for all financial operations. This includes implementing governance, financial standards, and risk management procedures. Additionally, it aims to digitize financial services related to invoicing, payment, collection, and auditing, which involve the enforcement of court rulings and the verification of financial data.
Developing Legislation for New Technologies in the Judicial System
Initiative Status: On Track
This initiative focuses on creating technology-specific legislation to address potential legal challenges associated with AI and emerging technologies. It aims to prevent legislative gaps by developing regulations that define how digital and AI-driven decisions can be governed. By setting clear principles and rules, the initiative ensures stability in judicial rulings, enhances transparency, and strengthens judicial safeguards.
Implementing Legal Insurance Services
Initiative Status: Completed
The initiative introduces legal insurance services to judicial and legal transactions, partnering with the insurance sector and relevant authorities. These services help manage potential disputes before and during litigation, minimizing financial risks for involved parties. The initiative includes developing necessary regulations, operational models, and partnerships that reflect on judicial processes and enforcement mechanisms.
Developing Standards and Rules for Judicial and Legal Work and Activating Compliance Tools
Initiative Status: On Track
This initiative focuses on establishing standards and rules for judicial and legal compliance, creating policies to ensure that operations align with approved regulatory or administrative procedures. In collaboration with the Supreme Judicial Council, the initiative helps address operational challenges by building compliance standards, policies, and evaluation units that positively impact client satisfaction.
Regulating and Empowering the Legal Profession, Experts, and Supporting Bodies
Initiative Status: On Track
This initiative aims to develop sectors that support the judiciary, such as legal professionals and expert witnesses. The goal is to enhance efficiency by establishing global best practices for managing legal and administrative work, offering legislative and knowledge pathways, and creating regulations for these sectors in collaboration with the Saudi Bar Association and relevant professional bodies.