About Saeed Lex
Saeed Lex is the Maldives Higher Courts Case Law Database: an independent, searchable collection of the judgments of the Supreme Court and the High Court of the Maldives, and the legal principles they establish.
What Saeed Lex is
The judgments of the Supreme Court and the High Court are the precedents that lawyers, judges, students and researchers rely on. Saeed Lex brings them together in one place, so you can find the principle you need by legal issue, statute, case number or party, and read it in the court's own words.
What you can do
- Search judgments and legal principles, with filters by court, year, area of law and outcome.
- Read each judgment's legal principles, quoted in the court's own words with paragraph numbers you can cite.
- Look up a law section by section and see the judgments that interpret it.
- See how a judgment was treated on appeal and which later judgments cite it.
- Save judgments and principles to work folders, add notes, and export them.
Sources and accuracy
Judgments are taken from those published by the courts, and every judgment page links to the court's original. Headnotes and summaries are prepared with the help of AI; those reviewed by a lawyer are marked. Always check the original judgment before citing it.
Privacy
Party addresses are removed, and in sensitive matters such as family and child cases the names of private individuals are hidden.
Who runs Saeed Lex
Saeed Lex is an independent project founded and run by Ali Saeed (ޢަލީ ސަޢީދު), a Maldivian lawyer with more than twelve years of experience in litigation, judicial administration and legal research.
Ali is an Attorney-at-Law admitted to the Bar Council of the Maldives, with Higher Rights of Audience before the High Court. He has appeared in the Criminal Court, Civil Court, High Court and Employment Tribunal, in cases that produced High Court precedents on civil procedure and on the review of police dismissals. He previously served as Legal Officer and Acting Registrar of the Family Court, and taught moot court at the Islamic University of Maldives.
He built Saeed Lex so that the judgments of the Supreme Court and the High Court are easy to find, read and cite, in both Dhivehi and English.
Independence
Saeed Lex is independent and is not affiliated with the government, the courts or any law firm. Nothing on Saeed Lex is legal advice.