Article 33 of the Saudi Commercial Courts Law

المادة 33 من نظام المحاكم التجارية · الباب السادس: الطلبات المستعجلة

By decision of the Council, a first-instance circuit of a single judge may be formed in the commercial court with jurisdiction over urgent applications and other applications the Council specifies.

Official text (Arabic)

This article has not been amended since the law was issued.

يجوز -بقرار من المجلس- أن تؤلف في المحكمة دائرة ابتدائية مكونة من قاضٍ واحد تختص بالنظر في الطلبات المستعجلة، والطلبات الأخرى التي يحددها المجلس.

This is the official Arabic wording, the only legally binding version. We do not translate the law itself; the explanation below is ours. Official source: Bureau of Experts at the Council of Ministers

Article 33 explained in plain English

This article, within Part Six on urgent applications, deals with the body that can hear these applications within the commercial court. It permits forming in the court a first-instance circuit consisting of a single judge, by decision of the Council.

This circuit has jurisdiction over two things:

Urgent applications.
Other applications the Council specifies.

The text came in permissive form ("may be formed"), meaning that forming this circuit is left to the Council's decision, and the article does not specify the number of these circuits or the courts in which they are formed, or the other applications the Council may assign to them; all of that is left to its decisions.

This article is connected to Article 34, which requires referring an urgent application to the competent circuit as soon as it is submitted and deciding it within a period not exceeding 3 working days from the date of its referral, and permits, when necessary, deciding it in the presence of the person who submitted it without the other party being present.

Anyone who needs to submit an urgent application in a commercial dispute can use a lawyer who specializes in commercial cases to find out the competent circuit and how to submit.

Translated from our Arabic explanation with machine assistance. For guidance only; it does not replace advice from a lawyer on your situation.

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