Article 30 of the Saudi Law of the Judiciary

المادة 30 من نظام القضاء

The decision of the Committee for Deciding Conflicts of Jurisdiction is issued by majority and is not open to objection.

Official text (Arabic)

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

يصدر قرار لجنة الفصل في تنازع الاختصاص بالأغلبية، ويكون غير قابل للاعتراض.

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 30 explained in plain English

This article sets out two provisions on the decision of the Committee for Deciding Conflicts of Jurisdiction:

How it is issued: the decision is issued by majority. Unanimity of the Committee's members is not required.
Finality: the decision is not open to objection, so once it is issued the question of the competent body, or the dispute over the contradictory judgments, is settled.

Making the decision not open to objection is consistent with the purpose of creating the Committee, which is to end the conflict, not prolong it. If the decision could be objected to, the very problem the Committee was created to solve would return.

This decision marks the end of the proceedings that begin when the request is filed with the Committee. Article 29 explains that filing the request results in a stay of proceedings in the case to which the request relates, and if the request is filed after judgment, the chair of the Committee may order a stay of enforcement of the conflicting judgments or one of them. Once the Committee's decision is issued, the fate of the case or the two judgments is determined.

The article does not describe the procedures that follow once the decision is issued, nor how it is enforced or notified. Because the decision is final, it is important to prepare the request and the documents attached to it carefully from the start, and it is advisable to use a lawyer specialized in litigation and court procedure for this.

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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