Abu Dhabi : The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) has added Hindi as the third official language to be spoken in the city’s courts, alongside Arabic and English.
This step was taken at helping foreigners to learn about litigation procedures, their rights and duties without a language barrier, in addition to facilitating registration procedures via unified forms available through the Department’s website, The Khaleej Times reported.
“The multilingual interactive forms for claim sheets, grievances and requests, aims to promote judicial services and increase the transparency of litigation procedures,” Yousef Saeed Al Abri, undersecretary of the ADJD, said on Saturday.
Of the United Arab Emirates’ population of over 9 million people, 88.5 per cent are expatriate workers, according to official figures.
Indians account for 38 per cent of the population.-IANS