Welcome on the new website of Damascus Bar Association.
The Internet represents a large field of knowledge influencing everyone while simultaneously giving them the possibility to exercise on it their own influence. And the world wide web has become one of the special marks of our world, and an essential tool to be an active part of it and to communicate with and within it. Internet users and visitors are increasing day after day, because the Internet network was successful in bringing people all around the world closer to each other and in removing the distance between the nations, spreading education, information, knowledge and opening large horizons for new scientific achievements.
Accordingly, turning the back to Internet or ignoring it would lead those who chose to do so to an evident intellectual handicap and to a lack of knowledge which is unacceptable in times like ours where there is no place for lethargy and indifference.
Our Association, the Damascus Bar Association, has always believed in progress and has constantly played its leading role in supporting progressive forces of the society in the service of the human being and law. And from our faith in the importance of the development process leaded by Mr. Bashar AL ASSAD, President of the Syrian Arab Republic, endeavoring to develop this country on the economic, political, social, cultural and scientific levels, the Damascus Bar Association has decided to bring its modest participation to this comprehensive process by crating a website that will increase the visibility of Syria and Syrian law on the world wide web.
As we believe that we must bring our participation to Internet, the global network which we consider to be the most important scientific achievement of the human civilization, we put at the service of the Internet community our legal website, through which we attempt to realize two basic objectives:
First, to offer a useful legal and scientific tool that will make available to the visitors of our website the most important and the newest legal information, laws, decrees, and court jurisprudence related to Syria.
Second, to propose a wide range of services to lawyers through the free email service that will provide them with all necessary information that can make their work easier and allow them to save time and effort.
Our website will not only be valuable for Syrian lawyers, but also for all those who are interested in Syrian law, and for Arab and foreign lawyers who would like to be acquainted with Syrian laws and legislations. Thus, our hope is that it will be a useful tool for creating a fruitful legal dialogue among legal professionals and all those who are interested in law, and doing so, it will help spreading knowledge and cooperation on scientific and economic levels between members of the legal community.
Visitors are kindly informed that our website will be subject to continuous developing, and we will take in consideration all comments, suggestions, and researches presented by the users for the service of the legal community in general and Syrian lawyers in particular. Your participation is always welcomed.
Through the ages, the human being has always built too many walls but never enough bridges, and science has offered the means to cancel all distances except the distance between people themselves. We look to the Internet as a valuable human attempt to lengthen the bridges of knowledge and communication between people, and as a continuous quest to annihilate the walls of distance and absence.
The President of the IT Committee
M. Jihad Al Lahham
Member of the Council of Order - Damascus Bar Association