The Supreme Judicial Council began implementing the decision to allocate specialized chambers to consider commercial disputes and lawsuits (6 first instance chambers and two appeal chambers) in a first step towards activating the specialized judiciary.

This decision comes as part of the final preparations for the inauguration of the Investment and Trade Court, to be established, so that these specialized circuits will be the first core of the court.

Each of the entire and partial circuits of the Court of First Instance will be competent to adjudicate disputes and lawsuits arising between merchants and related to their commercial business, and between partners or shareholders or between any of them and the company, as the case may be, in commercial companies, disputes related to bank operations, and disputes related to bankruptcy and preventive composition. And disputes related to patents, trademarks, industrial models, trade secrets and intellectual property rights, and disputes related to preventing monopolistic practices, competition, dumping and practices harmful to national products.

A circuit in the Court of Appeal has also been designated to hear appeals against judgments related to commercial disputes in the first instance.

It should be noted that allocating departments for commercial lawsuits will contribute to achieving complete justice in trade disputes and strengthening the role of the specialized judiciary in order to be the beginning towards the specialized judiciary and the first building block of the Investment and Trade Court.