Ministry of Justice (Arab Union)

In the Union of Arab Republics (UAR; informally the Arab Union), all 20 republics (the union's federated states) have a Ministry of Justice (Arabic: وزارة العدل wuzārat al-‘adl), which is responsible for the administration of justice within its jurisdiction, including leading criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state and overseeing all other executive functions of the justice system including some areas of law enforcement (although regular policing and public security instead comes under the jurisdiction of a Ministry of Interior). Each Ministry of Justice of a republic is chaired by that republic's Solicitor General, commonly known informally as Minister of Justice.

Despite the fact that criminal law is enacted exclusively by the Arab Congress (the federal legislative assembly) and is thus uniform across the Arab Union, the actual administration of justice and thus practical application of criminal law, notably including public prosecution, is the exclusive responsibility of the republics, except for matters which affect more than one republic or the union as a whole. In such cases of federal jurisdiction, the administration of justice is instead handled by the federal government's Ministry of Attorney General.