DUBAI: Saudi judiciary officials have announced that female lawyers would soon be allowed to represent their clients in the courtroom, reported the Saudi Arabic daily al-Madina. The Ministry of Justice said that women will be issued a restrictive form of license which will give them access to certain areas of the courts and in cases in which they are representing female clients only.
A study has already been prepared by the ministry which recommends that the best way of protecting women’s rights in various cases would be by being represented in the court by a female lawyer, the daily quoted Sheikh Abdullah al-Guwair, director of the department of lawyers at the Saudi Ministry of Justice.
"The Ministry decided to go on with such a move after noticing that a large number of women give often give up their rights just because they are too shy to talks about the details of their personal issues to male lawyers," he said.
Guwair predicted that there would be opposition over the decision to grant license to Saudi female lawyers citing conservatism.
"A female lawyer would not be working side by side with male lawyers, but there would be certain rules controlling the access to the different courtrooms," he explained.
Women will have a certain section within the courts that will be solely allocated for their cases and their representative female lawyers, if the proposal is passed by the concerned authorities, the newspaper quoted Guwair.
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