English abstract
This paper presents a commentary study on chapter one of the Litigation Procedural Simplification Act which was issued recently by the Royal Decree No. 125/2020 dated 12 of November 2020. It aims to test the newly issued Act against the known Procedural Simplification Criteria so as to methodologically produce a predictive vision for the Executive Regulations to the Act and to deliver a profound law review which may assist in any future legislative amendments.
By utilizing the empirical methodology, the paper traced back all the amendments that have been made by the Act in purpose to disclose the achieved Procedural Simplification. The paper reached two types of results the first type of which dis cussed under the title of The Features of the Procedural Simplification. Under this title the paper discussed mainly the newly initiated court, the amendments intro duced to the judicial time frames, and the adoption of the electronic means in judi cial communications and pleadings exchange. The second type of the results was discussed under the title: Ineffective Legislative Amendments. In this type the paper disclosed the amendments that were mere repetitions for previously known provisions such as the acknowledgement of the authenticated document as an executive deed. Also, the Ineffective amendments include those amendments fail the test of achieving any feature of the Procedural Simplification Criteria. The paper in its conclusion recommended for the Omani legislature to reconsider the fol- .)lowing sections of Chapter one of the Act: (4), (6), (7), (8), (9), (12), (15), (16), and (17
