Judicial principles and studies
Urgent-Matters Judge: Limiting Provisional Attachment and Valuation Expertise
A brief summary setting out fee rules and how valuation expertise and urgent inspection reports are handled in requests to limit provisional attachment, including limits on reliance and alternative sources.
Updated: 10 September 2026
Prepared and reviewed by: Ashraf Al-Khawaja
Subject
This summary addresses the rules applicable to a request to limit a provisional attachment submitted alongside a request to impose such attachment, the handling of valuation expertise and urgent inspection reports, and alternative sources of valuation such as land registry estimates.
Summary
- A request to limit the attachment is accessory to the imposition of a provisional attachment and falls under the scope of Article 6 of the court fees regulation; the legal fee due on filing this request is a lump sum of fifty Jordanian dinars for each stage of proceedings. - An urgent inspection carried out without court supervision is not automatically treated as admissible evidence for issuing a judgment, yet it may constitute the sole evidentiary material; in that event the court may require the expert who performed the inspection to be summoned and heard as a witness, or may summon the expert on its own motion, after which the descriptions given become evidence subject to the court’s assessment. - The expertise ordered by the urgent-matters judge in a request to limit attachment concerns only the valuation of the seized assets to determine the portion sufficient to cover the debt and does not decide the merits or the substantive right; therefore the judge is not required to accompany the expert at the inspection. The inspection and valuation may be conducted without the judge present provided legal safeguards are observed (swearing the expert, disclosure of impartiality and independence, and absence of circumstances undermining impartiality or links to any party). - The urgent-matters judge may rely on an expert report from a previous case if that expertise was conducted according to proper procedure and by judicial order or at the court’s request. - The judge may also consult valuations and encumbrance records from the Land and Survey Department to assess whether the seized property’s value covers the debt and its accessories, by contacting the department rather than relying solely on expert statements. This is an educational summary only and not judicial text or legal advice.
Practical significance
This is a general educational summary based on the points published in the official source. It does not replace the original material or a review by Ashraf Al-Khawaja before relying on it for any action.
Sources and references
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