RIYADH: The Ministry of Justice is making arrangements to create 1,000 legal, administrative, social and religious jobs for Saudi women next year, said Dr. Hamad Al-Subah, Acting Undersecretary of the Ministry of Justice and Director General of Financial Affairs. He said the selected candidates will work in 450 courts and notaries public in different parts of the Kingdom. The ministry has sent a questionnaire to the heads of the Shariah courts and notaries public seeking their opinions on the tasks they want assigned to women. Al-Subah said the ministry wants to ensure the justice sector has specialized women's departments dealing with women's affairs. The ministry intends to make it easier for women to bring their cases to the attention of judges or notaries public. This would ensure that women are no longer subjected to time-consuming procedures. As part of the restructuring, the ministry is in the process of creating a central administration for the women's section at the ministry, to be linked directly to the office of the general director for financial and administrative affairs. He said the ministry plans to have 12 female employees at the central administration, including director of the central administration for women's sections. The director will be appointed on Grade 8 in addition to a researcher on Shariah on Grade 6; legal researchers on Grade 6; social workers on Grade 6; liaison officer on Grade 6; and three clerks, one on Grade 4 and the two others on Grade 3. He said the central administration supervises the flow of work in the women's sections at courts and at the offices of notaries public.
