Judicial principles and studies
Financial Leasing Activity and the Summary/Interim Judge – Jurisdiction and Procedure
A brief summary explaining when a contract qualifies as a financial lease and the conditions for a lessor to apply to the summary/interim judge, with limits on the judge's review of urgent measures.
Updated: 10 September 2026
Prepared and reviewed by: Ashraf Al-Khawaja
Subject
The decision addresses legal points on the jurisdiction of the summary/interim judge in cases of repossession requests within financial leasing. It notes that urgent matters are examined diligently under Article 33(1) of the Civil Procedure Code, and that an appellate court that annuls an urgent order need not remand the request to the interim judge but may decide the matter itself.
Summary
Article 4 of the Financial Leasing Law indicates a contract qualifies as a financial lease when two conditions are met: the lessor acquires the asset from a supplier with the aim of leasing it under a financial lease contract, and the lessor obliges to enable the lessee to use the asset in return for rent. Under Article 22, a financial lessor may apply to the summary/interim judge to recover the asset if the contract is a financial lease and the lessee refuses to return the asset at the end of the lease term or fails to pay due rental installments. Such an application is an urgent request governed by the provisions on urgent requests, requiring both urgency and preservation of the underlying right for the interim judge to exercise jurisdiction.
Practical significance
The decision emphasizes that urgent relief is meant to be a temporary measure protecting the party most entitled until the substantive court rules, without deciding the main dispute. It also confirms that the interim judge may conduct a preliminary, non‑decisive review of the substantive right to justify a provisional measure. This content is an educational summary and not a judicial text or legal advice.
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