ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER No change in spending despite oil fall: Minister Business | 17 Wednesday 28 January 2015 • 8 Rabial II 1436 • Volume 19 Number 6324 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Lawyers want Emir attends Air College graduation courts to use modern IT tools Call for amending Procedural Law DOHA: The forum of Qatari from 2008 until 2014, court cases lawyers says the courts should had gone up massively in number. use modern telecommunica- From 67,552 in 2008, they totalled tions services in their day-to- 81,169 in 2014. day dealings in keeping with the “That explains why there is a huge changing times. backlog of cases with the courts,” The courts must also accept he said. An idea of the workload The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani attended the passing out ceremony of the second batch of students at Leader Mohamed bin emails, videos and audios, short- of courts can also be had from the Abdullah Al Attiyah Air College at Al Udeid Air Base yesterday. The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa messaging services of mobile fact that in 1986, for instance, there Al Thani, a number of Ministers and armed forces and Interior Ministry officers attended the ceremony. phones and other modern means were just 98 appeal cases. See also page 2 of communication as evidence in In 2013, the six courts of appeals cases. heard some 1,484 cases. “Amazing, The Qatari Lawyers’ isn’t it?” Al Zaman said. The cases Association has also underlined would further increase this year. the need for the courts to shorten “We urge Qatari law-makers to Real estate the time they take to settle amend the procedural law so as litigations. to ensure fair trial for individuals Dubai overtakes Heathrow brokerage law For this, the Association has and protect their rights.” said, the Procedural Law that Al Zaman was highly criti- was enforced way back in 1990, cal of the setting up of rent dis- to stabilise must be amended to keep pace pute resolution committees by as top international airport with the changes that have taken the Ministry of Municipality place ever since. and Urban Planning vide Law DUBAI: Dubai airport has Griffiths said Dubai International world with around 135 million rents: Expert For example, the country’s Number 4 regulating property soared ahead of London’s would boost its annual capacity passengers a year. DOHA: House and commercial population has multiplied 15 times rentals enforced in 2008. Heathrow, riding a boom in to 90 million passengers this year Heathrow handled 68.1 million property rents are expected to since 1990 and is now 2.3 million, He said the move breached the long-haul flights between Asia with the opening of Concourse international passengers in 2014, be “reasonable” once the new according to a prominent member authority of the judiciary and and the West to become the D — a new hall for arrivals and according to airport figures. real estate brokerage business of the Association. The workload eroded what was the authority world’s top international travel departures. The British hub still outclassed law comes into force, says a on the courts has multiplied 10 of the courts. The law authorised hub, it said yesterday. Oil-poor Dubai has spent years Dubai International in overall market expert. times in the past 30 years, said the Supreme Judicial Council to Traffic at the airport increased trying to diversify its economy numbers, handling 73.4 million The draft law is, though, at its prominent lawyer and member of appoint a judge to the committee 6.1 percent last year to 70.47 mil- with core sectors now including passengers if travellers on domes- initial stage and being discussed the Association, Yusuf Al Zaman. but the municipal minister had the lion passengers, Dubai Airports trade, transport and tourism. tic flights are included. by those concerned, it is expected The Association held a meeting right to nominate two other mem- said, adding that it expected a Aided by a rapid expansion in Dubai’s increase in passenger to see the light of day within this on Monday and discussed these bers on the panel. This breached further surge in traveller numbers capacity, aviation is expected to numbers comes despite a slight fall year. issues. The meet was chaired by the authority of the judiciary. in 2015. “This historic milestone account for more than a third of in the number of flights taking off “I don’t think rents would Dr Hassan Al Sayed. Present Only the courts, and not admin- is the culmination of over five the emirate’s GDP by 2020. in 2014, due to 80-day runway refur- decrease once the new law comes was the Association’s Chairman, istrative panels dominated by the decades of double-digit average London Heathrow by contrast bishment project. Emirates Airline into force since they are linked Rashid Al Nuaimi. civic ministry, could decide rent- growth,” Dubai Airports Chairman has struggled to grow, with a in particular has bought more to supply and demand, but they Procedural law is a set of rules related disputes, he said. The move Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al commission still studying pro- wide-bodied aircraft, including the would become reasonable because that govern court proceedings in was made on the pretext of quick- Maktoum said in a statement. posals to increase capacity there world’s largest fleet of Airbus A380 the deals would be better organ- criminal, civil, administrative and ening up the pace of rent dispute “The shared goal is to make and at Gatwick airport, south of superjumbos, helping the average ised and regulated,” Ahmed Al other lawsuits, and they decide resolution. That was no justifica- Dubai a global centre of aviation and London. The two are among five number of passengers per flight at Oruqui told this newspaper. how long a case would linger. tion for the move, said Al Zaman. we are nearing that goal,” he said. airports serving the UK capital Dubai to grow to more than 200. He told a local Arabic daily in Al Zaman said in just six years, THE PENINSULA Dubai Airports CEO Paul that form the busiest hub in the AFP remarks published yesterday that the law would prevent speculation in real estate transactions and bring price stability to the market. Obama visits Saudi King Other market operators told the daily that there were an esti- Bullet hits flydubai jet in mated 1,000 real estate brokerage firms in the country and they were eagerly looking forward to the new Iraq, flights disrupted law since it would eliminate illegal middlemen from their business. Brokerage commissions in real BAGHDAD: A bullet hit the disembarked safely, a flydubai estate and rent-related transac- fuselage of a flydubai airliner spokesperson said. tions would be reduced and deals on its descent into Baghdad The no-frills carrier said it would be streamlined, they said. yesterday, lightly wounding a was working with Iraqi authori- THE PENINSULA young girl and prompting many ties to investigate the incident, carriers to suspend their flights, adding that it would continue to Four foreigners officials said. fly to other destinations in Iraq. “There was no consequence “Emirates has suspended its among 8 killed in other than a slight injury to a services to Baghdad until further young girl. The pilot landed and notice due to operational reasons,” he was not aware of what had the Dubai-based carrier said. Tripoli hotel raid happened,” Transport Minister Other UAE carriers, including Baqr Jabr Al Zubaidi told report- Emirates, Etihad and Air Arabia, TRIPOLI: Two heavily armed ers at the airport. suspended their flights to Baghdad, gunmen stormed a luxury hotel Flight FZ215 was hit by as did Turkish Airlines and in Tripoli favoured by Libyan US President Barack Obama with the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia “small arms fire” before landing Lebanon’s Middle East Airlines. officials and visiting delegations at Erga Palace in Riyadh yesterday. Obama came to pay his respects after the death of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz. on Monday but all passengers AFP yesterday, killing at least eight See also page 7 people including four foreigners before blowing themselves up, authorities said. Shooting erupted inside the five-star Corinthia Hotel and security forces evacuated guests, Government urged to support family businesses including Tripoli’s prime minis- ter and an American delegation, DOHA: A key research asks the according to the research. that accounts for some three- to downturns in one sector, and shows that better ‘employee engage- after gunmen blasted through the Qatari government to back family These factors, classed as fourths of the region’s private can rapidly move into growth ment’ can result in a 40 percent building’s security and reception. businesses that dominate the local ‘employee engagement’, can result sector economy, are ubiquitous markets. increase in customer satisfaction. A militant group associated private sector economy as strate- in a 36 percent increase in overall across the GCC. Qatari family business leaders Qatari family firms, on their with Islamic State insurgents in gic assets. The research claims performance, says the research from Unique strengths of these fam- should view ‘employee engage- part, must ensure that their future Iraq and Syria claimed responsi- that Qatari family businesses Oxford Strategic Consulting (OSC). ily businesses represent proven ment’ as a key priority. generations of leaders are developed bility for the attack as revenge for demonstrate behaviours that can Amid a 50 percent reduction advantages for the region.