Judicial district (Arab Union)

The Union of Arab Republics (UAR; informally the Arab Union) consists of 20 republics, which constitute the federated states of the union. Each republic consists of multiple (between 11 and 60) judicial districts (Arabic: منطقات القضائية minṭaqāt al-qaḍā’īyah; sing. المنطقة القضائية al-minṭaqah al-qaḍā’īyah). The judicial districts each encompass one or more municipalities (depending on population), and are served by a respective district court, which is the court of first instance for all civil and criminal cases in the judicial district (with the rare exception of those cases deemed by the republic's supreme court to warrant its initial hearing). Nasser City, the federal capital of the Arab Union, which is administered as a federal district legally separate from any of the 20 republics, also has its own judicial district which corresponds to the capital city's municipal boundaries.

The judicial districts are also used by federal tribunals for trying routine cases which nonetheless come under federal jurisdiction (most commonly those cases directly affecting the federal government or another federal institution or entity). In such an event, a federal tribunal will be established in the relevant judicial district (although for such purposes the judicial district forms a distinct entity not under the jurisdiction of its district court), and will be dissolved following the federal trial. The judicial district's senior justice or a puisne justice will typically be invited to preside over the federal tribunal (and deliver the verdict if not employing a jury), with federal justice(s) (usually one or more puisne justices from the Court of Appeals of the Arab Union but sometimes from the Supreme Court of the Arab Union) only responsible for supervising the tribunal process and formally dissolving the tribunal following a verdict.