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abuse of tho Court, and Its real foundation io tho love of
litigation notorious amongst Ipw-Oaato Indiana, Unfortunatoly
it io not possible for* tho ClQur$ to donounoe tho wuete of time
in hearing uuoh proceedings without first hearing them.
The Third Pa?ty Ihay^anc* Regulation which oamo into

operation in 1994 hagnet 99 far produced any court cases for
personal injuries, TJjptfo pipy hpye been Battlements out of
oourt, hut insofar *9 the insurance companies base their
premiums on a oompwjBpn ylth Knglieh qourt-awards, it can

have no busio whatpoyytr, In England, court awards for
injuries are notprlou^ly high, as are tho ooeta which go
with them, but so far as thifi Qoupt is oonoernod the companies

have not had to pay out a single rupee. It io thought that
the Accident Offiooe Association might fairly be asked to
comment on their experience of the working of this Regulation
during 1954 oince they wore deoidoly oriticul of it whon it
first oume out. It is sometimes pointed out that tho cost of
our-repuirs io very high in Bahrain, but this, of course,

has nothing whatever to do with Third Party Compulsory
Insurunoe, which is only concerned with personal injuries.
The Majlis et-TuJara, No cases gave rise to questions
requiring reference to the Majlis under Article 46 of the

Order. Past experience has tended to show that the Mujlis
invariably assumes that it is asked to deoide a particular
case and not a specific question, (This io still tho position
in the case of the Bahrain Courts), The result is great delay
and often disagreement amongst the Majlis, They are an unpaid

body of merchants, and it is .'possible that their composition
may be quite different whon they come to give their decision
from what it wae when they were’ first invoked.
The 9heraf Oourt. One case arose in which the Sherd Oourt

was qoked to give an opinion on Islamic law under Article 46,
A Pakistani whose wife had died in ohildbirth handed over tho
baby (a girl) to a neighbour, a Pakistani tailor, with whom
/he was