Reorganisation of the Judiciary in Lebanon

Type

Decision

Number

178

Date of the text

10/08/1934

Official Gazette

published in 1939

Status today

In force, amended as of 27/08/2026

Articles

97

What it provides

This decree reorganises the judiciary in Lebanon, listing the courts as justices of the peace, first instance, cassation and appeal, keeping the existing structure of peace and first-instance courts while allowing some peace courts to be merged, creating new judicial and clerical posts, and locating the appeal court in

What has changed this text

• Amended by Decision No. 106/1935 of 10/05/1935, articles 54
• Partly repealed by High Commissioner Decision No. 171/1939 of 11/08/1939, articles 62

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1939. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.