A company filed a case against a defendant before the court. The company requested the court to order the defendant to pay 7314229 Riyals. The company said that the defendant owed this amount as a result of an engineering consultancy contract.

The court said that the case documents revealed that the dispute between the two parties was not related to a commercial activity. The court said that the case documents revealed that the defendant worked in the field of engineering and was not a merchant. The court said that the court did not have jurisdiction to consider the case.

The court ruled that the consideration of the case did not fall under their jurisdiction.

The Court of Appeal – Riyadh upheld the ruling based on same grounds.