All courts lately listening to human trafficking circumstances will refer them to the newly established court docket
ABU DHABI: His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy High Minister and Chairman of the Presidential Court docket, in his capability as Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Judicial Division (ADJD), has issued Solution No. 40 of 2026 organising a specialized court docket to adjudicate human trafficking crimes in Abu Dhabi.
The solution comes as a part of ongoing efforts to toughen a specialized judicial device and give you the very best requirements of justice in a well timed method, marking an important step in bettering felony coverage mechanisms and safeguarding human dignity and rights.
In keeping with the main of complete judicial specialisation, the brand new court docket establishes an built-in procedural framework inside its organisational construction. This starts with a specialized Public Prosecution answerable for investigating and prosecuting human trafficking crimes, and extends to Courts of First Example and Courts of Enchantment with jurisdiction over such crimes.
The built-in framework is designed to beef up the potency of judicial procedures and boost up the adjudication of circumstances.
To toughen the excellent coverage framework and unify efforts, the solution supplies that the court docket shall have jurisdiction over all human trafficking circumstances coming up throughout the emirate of Abu Dhabi. It additionally calls for all courts lately listening to human trafficking circumstances to refer them to the newly established court docket, until the pleadings were closed, making sure that each one such circumstances are treated inside a specialized judicial framework.
The ADJD undersecretary will factor the essential selections to enforce the provisions of this solution and be sure that the court docket workouts its jurisdiction successfully.
