Saeed Al-Suraih

Okaz

Courts in the Kingdom were forced to refer more than 20,000 verdicts to the police for implementation. The courts sought the force of law after a number of individuals and establishments that were ruled against deliberately delayed executing these verdicts.



This simply means that some people and institutions are not taking the court rulings seriously or are not ready to implement them. These people mistakenly believe that when they delay the implementation of the rulings, the courts would either back off or forget all about them.



When more than 20,000 court rulings remain unimplemented, this means justice was not done to the same number of people who waited a long time for the courts to make their decisions. When the rulings were made, these people believed that justice was finally done to them and that they came victorious out of their legal battles.



For them, a long road of litigation has come to an end. They had no idea that their opponents would obstruct the execution of the verdicts.



When the litigants come to know that even the force of law has failed to implement these rulings, they will go again through the ordeal of waiting for months in front of the courts to obtain a new ruling from them to implement the previous verdicts. This is a vicious circle that will go on and on.



The judicial system, which believes that it has ruled on more than 20,000 cases and now has the time to consider other cases, will realize that none of its verdicts has been implemented and that the law enforcement did not work. The courts should severely punish anyone who fails to implement court rulings.



Such a measure will deter other people who might consider ignoring such rulings issued against them and restore dignity and honor to the judicial system.