THE PRINCIPLE OF PROCEDURAL CONCENTRATION IN SOMALILAND CIVIL PRE-TRIAL LITIGATION An Independent Theoretical, Doctrinal and Comparative Study of Case Preparation, Issue Stabilisation and Evidentiary Concentration Mohamed Ahmed Abdi Ba'aluul
THE PRINCIPLE OF PROCEDURAL CONCENTRATION IN SOMALILAND CIVIL PRE-TRIAL LITIGATION An Independent Theoretical, Doctrinal and Comparative Study of Case Preparation, Issue Stabilisation and Evidentiary Concentration Mohamed Ahmed Abdi Ba'aluul Talosan Law Firm and Legal Services Hargeisa, Somaliland 10 November 2026 ABSTRACT This study examines how ordinary civil proceedings in Somaliland are structured in practice , taking the principle of procedural concentration as its organising idea and focusing on initial pleading, evidentiary preparation, issue stabilisation and procedural closure. The frame is the Civil Procedure Code (Law No. 19 of 27 July 1974), promulgated in the official gazette ( Faafinta Rasmiga ah ), whose continued application depends on Article 130(5) of the 2001 Constitution. Within that frame the study asks a narrow question: whether the existing framework provides parties and the court with a mechanism sufficiently integrated to prepa...