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Administrative Law

We believe that Administrative Law is the “other side of the coin” when it comes to providing legal services to international clients. All interactions with Egyptian government authorities, including the regulatory bodies involve Administrative Law principles coming into play. Orders to de-list stocks from trading, issuance of a license to operate in a specific activity, granting the concession to run an airport or declaring a bidder qualified to participate in a bidding for a government owned company are but examples of administrative decrees and contracts all governed by Administrative Law.

The Administrative Law domain is one of the characteristics of the Egyptian legal system whereas Egypt maintains a two-jurisdiction judiciary consisting of the ordinary courts and the administrative courts (the State’s Counsel). Unlike the case with ordinary courts, the State’s Counsel does not rely on a codified law but rather on judicial precedents, administrative custom, general principles of equity in its own context.