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different issues which ore involved the greater pro­
portion have been decided and it is hoped that the
case will he finally closed within a few months.

The amount involved is over ten lacs and the court
has hod to deal with some fifty or sixty different

issues each one involving leap,thy litigation and
reaching back over ten or twelve years.
Court ’Vakils. Severs] cases ocurrcd during the
year in which it was proved that wakils acting in the

courts had misappropriated funds which hud been paid
to them on behalf of their principals by the court,

i’ll the Bahrain court two such persons were sentence-'
to hard labour. The matter is now uni t considera­
tion cnl rules arc being framed regarding wakils

practising in the courts which will be submitted tc
li. Shaikh Hamad for approval, It is proposed to
demand a deposit which could con-.ist of a mortgage

on property if cash was not forthcoming, in the case
of professional wakils , but uersons who anpear on
behalf of their wives, children or near relations will

he exempted from the payment of a deposit, The fees
chargeable by a wakil acting for women or minors
will be laid down by the court hut in other cases the

parties will be at liberty to come to any arrangement
which they may like to.
Shaikh JasimTs affairs. Last year, on the suggestion

of Ji. 3. Hfs Political Agent the Bahrain court took aver the
control of the affairs and property of Shaikh Jusim sl­
Hchza, the aged ex-jadi of Bahrain, owing to his cora-
plete blindness and the unsatisfactory behaviour of some

of his relations there was danger of his extensive pro-
port.y being misap; ropriuted. Tho v^adi agreed that the

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