BCC 214/2007
Type
Case
Court
Bahrain Court of Cassation
Jurisdiction
Bahrain
Taxonomy
Civil Courts, General Administrative Law & Judicial Review, Appeals, Jurisdiction & Choice of Law
Copyright
LexisNexis
Decision date
3 Mar 2008
Catchwords
Court – Administrative Law – Protests – Jurisdiction - Appeal
This case involved a claim for compensation as a result of damages which were the result of the crackdown on protests organised by clerics. The court of appeal stated the initial court had no mandate to hear the case. There was no law preventing one of the departments of the civil court considering a case that fell under its mandate.
Background
The claimants filed a case against the Ministry of Interior before the civil court requesting the Ministry pay them compensation for the damage which had resulted from the crackdown on a protests organized by clerics.
The court dismissed the case.
The claimants appealed the ruling before the court of appeal. The court dismissed the appeal and upheld the appealed ruling.
The claimants appealed the ruling before the court of cassation and said in their grounds of appeal that the ruling had violated the law because they maintained before the court of appeal that the initial court had no mandate to consider the case and the case should be referred to the administrative department.
Decision