Establishment and Organisation of the Alawite and Jaafari Sharia Courts

Type

Law

Number

450

Date of the text

17/08/1995

Official Gazette

published in 1995

Status today

In force as of 27/08/2026

Articles

6

What it provides

This law establishes the Alawite Jaafari Sharia judiciary as part of the state's judicial system, consisting of primary courts in Tripoli and Akkar and a higher Sharia court in Tripoli, and applies the Sunni and Jaafari Sharia judiciary law to its jurisdiction and procedures.

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1995. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.