Civil and Commercial Procedures Act (Bahrain, Statute No. 12, 1971) in English

Statute No. 12 of 1971 is Bahrain's Civil and Commercial Procedures Act — the rulebook of litigation in the Kingdom's civil and commercial courts: jurisdiction, filing, service, evidence, judgment and execution. Substantive rights are only worth what procedure lets you enforce, and in Bahrain this is the statute that decides.

Any party litigating in Bahrain — and any foreign lawyer instructing local counsel — works within this act, as amended over its five decades of service. It pairs naturally with the Contract Law of 1969 and the Penal Code elsewhere in this collection.