Legislative and judicial policy in Persian Gulf: periodic reports on courts; revision of orders and payment of fees

This file contains:

• Correspondence relating to the gathering together of letters and despatches relating to future legislative and judicial policy in the Gulf (1)
• Annual reports on the working of Orders in Council in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, the Trucial States and Muscat along with comments on and responses to the reports. It includes lists of criminal, civil and estate cases disposed of during the year 1956 (3)
• List of items from the Gulf orders identified as needing major revision (4)
• Correspondence relating to the introduction of a new Indian decimal currency and the alteration this will necessitate of fees used in HM courts in the Gulf (5)
• Texts of: the Trucial States (Payment of Fees) Regulation, 1957; the Bahrain (Payment of Fees) Regulation, 1957; the Kuwait (Payment of Fees) Regulation, 1957; the Qatar (Payment of Fees) Regulation, 1957; the Muscat (Payment of Fees) Regulation, 1957. It also contains a request for these regulations to be allowed and the confirmation of allowance (6)
• 'Summary of legislation for the Persian Gulf in course of preparation, 1 May 1957' (7)
• Correspondence relating to the question of whether the British-Protected States of the Gulf are members of the Commonwealth, considering that none of the leaders have given their consent to entry (8)
• 'Summary of legislation for the Persian Gulf in course of preparation, 25 October 1957' (9)
• Correspondence relating to the need to establish quickly a legal system in the Gulf which would be tolerable to both Europeans and Muslims and therefore to concentrate on speed and simplicity in the making of laws (10-11)
• Request for supplies of court forms (12)