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ABOLITION REPORT
ALARM IN £GYPT
(Received August 11, 1.30 p.m.)
ALEXANDRIA, August 10.
The Wafdist newspaper Jihad statet that Britain has agreed to support Egypt's demand for the abolition ol mixed courts and that European communities are alarmed and predict that it will iead to a withdrawal of. foreign capital and limitation of foreign .business.
Mixed tribunals were instituted- in Egypt in 1875 consisting partly of natives and partly of foreign Judges, with jurisdiction, in civil matters, between natives- and foreigners and between foreigners of different nationalities, or even between foreigners bf.^ the same nationality if the dispute" relates to land in Egypt. The tribunals also have a limited penal jurisdiction, notably in cases of police offences, offences against the bankruptcy laws, and misappropriation of property seized by order of the tribunal. There are three Mixed Tribunals of First Instance, with a Court of Appeal sitting at Alexandria.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 36, 11 August 1936, Page 10
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