RIYADH (Reuters) - A shake up of Saudi Arabia's top judges, announced this week, may help unblock reform of a conservative Islamic legal system seen as hindering investment, lawyers and analysts say.
Critics of Saudi Arabia's sharia legal system say it is opaque and slow, and that judges whose training is in traditional interpretations of Islamic jurisprudence sometimes do not understand more complex, technical cases, particularly in commercial law.
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