Minister of Justice H E Masoud bin Mohammed Al Amri launching the online portal of legal and judicial studies.
Doha: Minister of Justice H E Masoud bin Mohammed Al Amri launched yesterday the online Portal of Legal and Judicial Studies in the Legal and Judicial Journal, in order to facilitate the process of receiving, reviewing, following up and evaluating legal researches electronically, and publishing them in the Journal.
The launch of the portal comes within the framework of updating the procedures of the Centre for Legal and Judicial Studies (CLJS), and improving its legal services directed to legal researchers, legal faculty members, judges, and jurists whose work require legal scientific research.
On this occasion, Acting Director of the Centre for Legal and Judicial Studies Nada Jassim Al Abduljabbar affirmed the importance of launching the portal to publish legal research online in the Legal and Judicial Journal to make it easier for researchers and jurists to publish in the Journal, indicating that the portal opens promising prospects for upgrading the content of the Journal in line with the legislative and legal renaissance that the State is witnessing, and provides researchers with a wide scope for publication in the Journal by and emailing the department concerned with receiving legal researches.
She said that this step constitutes a new achievement for the center and aims to advance the efforts of developing and deepening legal scientific research in various legal and judicial fields for the trainees, and to issue legal journals and periodicals.
Director of the Information Systems Department at the Ministry of Justice Hessa Al Sulaiti explained that this step came within the framework of the Ministry’s digital transformation plan, and to provide legal services to the public without the need for traditional application procedures and without the need to visit the Ministry to submit legal researches to be published in the Legal and Judicial Journal.
She said that the new portal facilitates the receiving of studies and researches from the applicant (researchers or jurists) automatically through the system, which provides a template called (request to publish research in the legal journal). After that, the review and evaluation process starts, in order to make a decision to publish these studies and researches if they are approved, through easy and accessible procedures, including a mechanism for communication between the legal employee at the CLJS and the applicant, Al Sulaiti added.
The portal is providing the possibility for the legal researchers to create an account through which they can submit one or more requests to publish a legal research in the Legal and Judicial Journal, after which the request will pass through an interactive process between the researchers and the centre’s work teams such as the audit and review team and the external evaluation teams, and then will be send to the publishing and printing team, so that the approved researches can be printed, with the feature of notifications and the ability to return the request to the researcher to complete some requirements.
The portal is also a central system for storing all legal researches submitted for publication, whether a decision has been taken to publish it or not. The researches will be linked to the edition of the journal that will be printed and published, in order to facilitate the process of indexing, follow-up and research.
