Yasin Khalid Khayat, the chairman of the JCCI’s lawyers’ committee, and Mohammed Darwish Salama, the forum’s secretary-general, sign a cooperation agreement.

The Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) has urged public and private businesses to attend the upcoming legal forum in the city to help improve the skills of industry workers and executives.

The forum will be held at the Jeddah Hilton on Oct. 14 and 15 and is expected to be the largest event of its kind in the Arab world, said Yasin Khalid Khayat, the chairman of the JCCI’s lawyers’ committee.

“The forum’s goal is to help society as a whole and lawyers in particular to establish the principles of justice in society,” he said. Preparations are going according to plan, he said.

He explained that the forum would have working committees consisting of legal experts. “The cooperation between the lawyers’ committee and the Administrative Creativity Group translates into collective work that aims to ensure the highest levels of success,” he told Arab News.

Khayat said that the two-day event would include judges, lecturers, trainees and lawyers from the Kingdom and abroad, and representatives from human rights bodies. The aim is to further develop a culture of justice in the country.

Mohammed Darwish Salama, the forum’s secretary-general, said discussions would focus on the public and private rights of people. It was an opportunity to gain from the experience of many legal experts, he said.

The forum targets all individuals interested in legal issues including lawyers and legal advisers, owners and managers of commercial companies, banking and financial institutions’ employees, workers in insurance and investment companies and chambers of commerce, and legal advisers at various public and private entities.