Rule one: the source comes before the statement

Every legal statement we publish carries its official source (Bureau of Experts, Ministry of Justice, Umm Al-Qura gazette, or the competent authority) with the article number and a verification date. Where an official source cannot be reached, we say plainly that the point is "unverified" — we never guess.

Classification methodology: green, gray, red

  • Green (general information): explanations of laws and procedures as stated in their sources — published after editorial review and source documentation.
  • Gray (could read as advice): anything approaching the application of the law to a specific situation — subject to heightened editorial review and full official-source documentation before publication. Pages reviewed by a licensed lawyer display the reviewer's name, license, and review date; pages whose legal review is not yet complete carry a visible "legal review being arranged" notice until it is completed under our verified-reviewer program.
  • Red (advice or legal drafting): never published. That is the work of licensed lawyers, and we refer you to them.

Binding correction rules

We publicly commit to three rules, because these errors are common in Arabic legal content:

  1. Cheques: direct enforcement of a bounced cheque is established Saudi law. Talk of a "2024 cheque reform" concerns other jurisdictions (UAE and Qatar) and does not apply to Saudi Arabia.
  2. Correct terminology: the operative report is the "absence from work report" (بلاغ تغيب) — with a 60-day grace period and a Qiwa objection right — not the deprecated "huroob" term.
  3. Labor Law: the reference is the Labor Law issued by Royal Decree M/51, as amended by Royal Decree M/44 of 1446H, effective 19 February 2025. Labor content based on the pre-amendment text is treated as stale and corrected.

AI in our content

We use AI to help prepare parts of our content (such as FAQs and plain-language summaries). Every AI-assisted section carries a clear notice, and passes the same editorial review before publication. No legal content on this site is generated live by AI for users without review.

Technical guarantees, not editorial promises

Some of our rules do not rely on editorial discipline alone — the publishing system itself enforces them, and no version of the site can ship in breach of them:

  • Cross-language citation parity: on pages under per-claim citation governance, the Arabic and English versions must rest on the same list of official sources, or publication halts automatically until the documentation matches.
  • A withdrawn-claims register: when a previously published statement cannot be proven, it is withdrawn everywhere it appears and recorded in an internal register that blocks the publishing system from letting it back onto any page until an official source establishes it.
  • Verification-date tracking: every page carries the date its sources were last checked, and the publishing system flags pages that have gone too long without review instead of relying on memory.
  • The AI computation boundary: AI Brain tools organize Hala Law's documented information and never compute a share or an amount; computation always belongs to the deterministic engines — the free calculators run on your device, and in the inheritance tool the server recomputes the result with the same deterministic engine before anything is explained.

Updates and corrections

Our sources are reviewed on a rolling basis, and every page shows a visible change log. If you spot an error, the Corrections page explains how to reach us — we commit to triaging reports within 72 hours.