My Musings On Construction Law Week No:9A
Construction Law under the Islamic/Sharia Law Legal System in Saudi Arabia.
This musing is in two Parts. To continue to Part 2, click on the link below:- Construction Law in Saudi Arabia | Medium Without further ado, let us go to Part 1.
HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW OR ARE AWARE OF THIS ?
Kindly explain what Non-Lawyer Claims Professionals should know about Construction Law under the Islamic/Sharia Law Legal System in Saudi Arabia.
As the Construction Industry winds down in UAE and pick up in Saudi Arabia, quite a number of Claims Professionals will be uprooting themselves from UAE to work in KSA. So the question to be asked is “Are the people ready to continue their services there as they did in UAE”. ? First and foremost although both countries practises the Islamic/Sharia Law ecosystem, they are not the same and there are marked differences between the two. The differences is UAE have codified certain aspects of the Construction Law for use whereas this is not done in KSA for private sector contracts. KSA have codified only the construction law for use in Government contracts.
The other salient point between the two is for UAE, Sharia Law is supreme but this is not so in KSA where the codified law for government contract reign supreme in the event of conflict/s.
In a nutshell, the Saudi Arabia’s legal ecosystem is based on the principles of Sharia Law in particular the Hanbali school of Islamic interpretation and thoughts adopting a fundamentalist and literal interpretation of the Qur’an. Currently there are 4 schools of interpretation and thoughts in the Islamic Law ecosystem. Saudi Arabia practices the Hanbali school.