Adi Bitar

Judge Adi Nasib Al Bitar (1924 - 1973) was a judge in the Middle East.

Adi was born in Jerusalem on December 7th, 1924. His father, Sheikh Nasib Al Bitar’s continuous relocation around Palestine forced him to enroll at the Terra Sancta School in Jerusalem as a boarder. He graduated high school there with honors.

He then joined the Jerusalem Law Classes until he graduated on April 26, 1948 and was registered as a lawyer on June 16, 1949.

He joined the DA's office in Jerusalem and worked his position up until he resigned in August 18,1956 to work in Sudan as a judge.

At the highpoint of his career as a DA, Adi took part in the initial hearings of the murder of "HM King Abdullah Bin Al Hussein I in 1951" in Jerusalem.

He accepted to be a judge in Sudan at Wed Medani where he was appointed as the Blue Nile District Judge in 1956.

In late 1959 he returned to Jerusalem where he established his own law firm. From 1959 until 1963 he never lost a case.

In 1963 he was offered a job in Dubai. He went to visit and met with the late Sheik Rashid Bin Said Al Maktoum the ruler of Dubai then. In 1964 he was appointed as the Legal Advisor to the Government of Dubai.

There he established the first civil Laws. He established the Civil Courts and helped establish the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and many other projects.

He was also appointed as the Secretary General to the Trucial States Council in 1967, the year it was established until it closed down in 1971 when the federation was created and the United Arab Emirates emerged as a new Arab State.

He took a very active and strategic part in the formation of the UAE. As a matter of fact Adi Bitar wrote the “Constitution” of the UAE. It was approved and signed by the Rulers of the Emirates in the Dubai Guest House Palace on December 2nd, 1971, the date that the UAE celebrates its National Day.

Two years later he died of cancer of the colon , and was buried in Dubai on March 4, 1973.