Happy, Happy--To say that Qatar is too young a country to have a reasonable legal system is tiresome. This is a blanket excuse you (and a few others) seem to offer when the inadequacies of Qatar are highlighted. Besides, what constitutes the age of a country--declaration of independence, age of a particular regime, or length of time people have continually inhabited a region? By any of these standards the Federal Republic of Germany is newer than Qatar, dating its current incarnation as a nation to only 1990.
Regardless, age has precious little to do with maturity in judicial systems; far greater factors are GDP, distribution of wealth and levels of education. Qatar has wealth, but the disparity in distribution is near the worst in the world (and getting worse), and the level of education is poor relative to GDP (but slowly getting better).
For the record, Nic's (and my) country was officially recognized by the international community as an independent nation in 1919. This means it is not yet 100 years old, but Canada's justice system is undeniably (and by this I mean as recognized by the wider world and the United Nations) far greater than Qatar's.
Happy, Happy--To say that Qatar is too young a country to have a reasonable legal system is tiresome. This is a blanket excuse you (and a few others) seem to offer when the inadequacies of Qatar are highlighted. Besides, what constitutes the age of a country--declaration of independence, age of a particular regime, or length of time people have continually inhabited a region? By any of these standards the Federal Republic of Germany is newer than Qatar, dating its current incarnation as a nation to only 1990.
Regardless, age has precious little to do with maturity in judicial systems; far greater factors are GDP, distribution of wealth and levels of education. Qatar has wealth, but the disparity in distribution is near the worst in the world (and getting worse), and the level of education is poor relative to GDP (but slowly getting better).
For the record, Nic's (and my) country was officially recognized by the international community as an independent nation in 1919. This means it is not yet 100 years old, but Canada's justice system is undeniably (and by this I mean as recognized by the wider world and the United Nations) far greater than Qatar's.