Abu Dhabi Includes Hindi As Its Third Official Court Language

Why in news?

• Abu Dhabi will include Hindi as the third official court language after Arabic and English.
• The landmark move comes with the aim to improve access to Justice in the country.

important points

• The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD), said it had extended the adoption of interactive statement forms of claims filed before courts to Hindi in labour cases.
• The move focuses on helping Hindi speakers learn about the procedure of litigation, the irduties and rights without any language barrier, Further, the judicial body said that the unified forms facilitating registration procedures are available on the ADJD website.
• Official figures indicated that immigrants consist of two-thirds of the approximate nine million population of the UAE and the Indian community in the country is 2.5 million, 30 percent of total population, making it UAE’s largest expatriate community.
• The Under secretary of the ADJD, Yousef Saeed AlAbri, said UAE, by adopting multilingual interactive forms for claim sheets, requests and problems, is aiming to promote judicial services in line with the 2021 plan and increasing transparency inlitigation procedures.
• Procedures required plain tiffs to translate the documents of the case in civil and commercial law suits into English when the defendant was a foreigner.

(India & world)(Times of India)

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