Legal Affairs Department
Legal advice, contracts and litigation, and the study contracts and guarantees of the university.
The Legal Affairs Department is one of the university’s specialised administrative departments. It provides legal advice, organises the university’s legal affairs and ensures that the institution complies with the legislation and regulations in force.
Duties and powers
- Provide legal advice to senior management, colleges and departments.
- Review and draft contracts, agreements and memoranda of understanding.
- Follow up lawsuits and legal cases concerning the university.
- Interpret university and ministry laws, regulations and instructions.
- Give legal opinion on administrative decisions and orders.
- Follow up the application of legislation and laws within the university.
- Represent the university before judicial and official bodies.
- Archive and organise legal documents and files.
- Raise legal awareness among university staff.
- Prepare periodic legal reports and submit them to senior management.
Vision and mission
Vision
Strengthening the rule of law and protecting the university’s legal rights in a way that achieves justice and sound governance.
Mission
Providing professional legal services that support the university’s work, preserve its rights and ensure compliance with the approved laws, regulations and instructions.
Administrative divisions
The Rights and Litigation Division is one of the specialised divisions of the Legal Affairs Department. It protects the university’s legal rights and follows its lawsuits and cases before the judicial and official bodies.
Duties and powers
- Follow up lawsuits and legal cases in which the university is a party.
- Represent the university before the courts and competent judicial bodies in coordination with senior management.
- Prepare legal memoranda, pleadings and judicial replies.
- Follow up the enforcement of judgments and decisions issued for or against the university.
- Preserve the university’s legal rights and property.
- Coordinate with official legal bodies and lawyers when needed.
- Document and archive case and lawsuit files.
- Give legal opinion on disputes and legal conflicts.
- Prepare periodic reports on lawsuits and legal measures taken.
- Comply with the laws, regulations and instructions in force.
The Contracts and Legal Consultancy Division is one of the specialised divisions of the Legal Affairs Department. It drafts and reviews contracts and provides legal advice, protecting the university’s rights and keeping its commitments within the legislation in force.
Duties and powers
- Draft and review contracts, agreements and memoranda of understanding concluded by the university.
- Provide legal advice to senior management, colleges and departments.
- Review the legal aspects of administrative decisions and orders.
- Ensure contracts conform to the laws, regulations and instructions in force.
- Follow contract implementation from a legal standpoint and resolve legal issues arising from it.
- Give legal opinion on disputes arising from contracts.
- Archive and organise contracts and legal documents.
- Coordinate with the relevant legal and official bodies.
- Prepare periodic reports on contracts and legal consultancy.
- Raise legal awareness on contracts and legal obligations.
The Study Contracts and Guarantees Division is one of the university’s specialised administrative divisions. It organises and administers students’ study contracts and legal guarantees, protecting the rights of the university and of students under the laws and instructions in force.
Duties and powers
- Prepare and organise students’ study contracts under the approved rules.
- Follow up students’ legal and financial guarantees.
- Audit contract and guarantor data and ensure legal requirements are complete.
- Keep and archive study contracts and guarantees on paper and electronically.
- Follow up the obligations arising for students and guarantors in law.
- Coordinate with the relevant departments on study contract matters.
- Give legal opinion on issues relating to study contracts and guarantees.
- Prepare periodic reports on contracts and guarantees.
- Comply with the relevant ministerial and university instructions.
- Ensure the confidentiality of information and legal documents.