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Each tool applies the rules the guides explain to the figures you enter. The result is a first reading, not advice on your case; the guide under each tool shows the law behind it.
Qatar gratuity calculatorUnder Article 54 of Qatar's Labour Law, a worker who completes at least one full year of service is owed an end-of-service gratuity of at least three weeks' wage for each year, plus a proportional share for any part of a year. It is calculated on the last basic wage, without allowances. Under one year, nothing is owed.Open the tool
Do I need a lawyer in Qatar?Not always. Many questions can be handled with good information. You should speak to a lawyer when something formal has started, such as a summons, a case or a judgment, when a deadline is close, or when your freedom, residency or children could be affected. The five questions below tell you where you stand.Open the tool
How do you check a court case online in Qatar?Log in to the Supreme Judiciary Council (SJC) e-services portal with your Tawtheeq (National Authentication System) account, choose "Search by Case Number" and enter the case number, type, court and year. You can also use the SJC's Al Mahakem app or its WhatsApp "Virtual Employee" on 44597777. Travel bans are checked separately, with the Ministry of Interior.Open the tool
Qatar inheritance calculatorUnder Qatar's Family Law (Law No. 22 of 2006) an estate is divided after funeral costs, debts and any will. The spouse and the parents take fixed shares: a husband a half or a quarter, a wife a quarter or an eighth, a mother a sixth or a third, and a father a sixth, plus what is left when there is no son. A daughter with no brother takes a half, and two or more share two thirds; sons, with any daughters, take what is left, a son taking twice a daughter's share. The calculator applies those rules to the family you enter, as a first reading.Open the tool
Company setup wizardMost businesses in Qatar are limited liability companies (WLL) under the Commercial Companies Law. A foreign investor may hold up to 100 per cent in most sectors with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry's approval above 49 per cent (Law No. 1 of 2019). The Qatar Financial Centre and the free zones run their own regimes, and a foreign company performing a government contract works through a branch. The wizard matches your answers to those routes and lists the steps, the Ministry's published fees and the time limits in the law.Open the tool
Can I change jobs or leave Qatar? A labour rights checkerIn most cases, yes. Since 2020 a worker under the Labour Law may change employer without the old employer's approval, by giving written notice and applying through the Ministry of Labour, and may leave Qatar during the contract without an exit permit. Notice is one month in the first two years of service and two months after that; on probation the rules differ; and in an Article 51 case no notice is needed. A temporary trip abroad does not end the contract at all. The checker shows your position from five answers.Open the tool
Legal deadline calculatorMost periods in Qatari law are short and fixed: 15 days to appeal a criminal judgment or a Labour Dispute Settlement Committee decision, 30 days for an ordinary civil appeal (15 from notification before the Investment and Trade Court), 60 days for a cassation appeal (30 before the Investment and Trade Court), ten working days to object to an enforcement notice, one year to bring a Labour Law claim, six months to present a cheque. The calculator adds the period to your date, shows a safe filing date and the days left, and says when the law runs the period past a weekend.Open the tool
Qatar legal dictionaryCourt papers, contracts and ministry forms in Qatar use Arabic legal terms that have no exact English twin. This dictionary explains more than fifty of them in plain words, with the English term lawyers use and a link to the guide that goes further: cheques and debt, labour, family, property, companies, criminal cases and the courts.Open the tool
Written byFaysel Al-MohannadiLawyer admitted before the Court of Cassation