CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR:

The Judicial Affairs

ARTICLE 187- In order to exercise necessary legal protection and facilitate public accessibility to the judicial services, and to protect the people’ rights, the Judicial Power is authorized to take measure in pre-qualification of the graduates of the field of law in order to enable them to set up legal counseling firms.

Presence of the said councilors in the courts of law and offices and public and non-public organizations for the purpose of performing the lawyers duties shall be permissible. Pre-qualification of the official legal experts through the above process is also possible.

The executive by-law of this Article including rating the remuneration for the said legal experts shall be approved by the Chief Justice.

ARTICLE 188- The judicial power is required to take measures in specializing the courts of law on the basis of the volume of the operation, legal needs and expertise, and experience of the judges, in order to enhance the quality of the courts and increase their efficiency.

The circumstances and the manner of executing this Article shall be based upon a directive that will be prepared by the Ministry of Justice and approved by the Chief Justice.

ARTICLE 189- In order to reduce the people’s recourse to the legal courts aiming at promoting popular participation, settlement of local disputes and issues of non-legal nature, or where their legal nature is less complicated, will be entrusted to the arbitration councils. The scope of the mandates and authority of the councils, their composition and the manner of nominating their members shall be based on the by-law to be proposed by Ministry of Justice and to be approved by the Cabinet and ratified by the Chief Justice.

ARTICLE 190- In order to improve the conditions of prisons and to create an environment conducive to rehabilitation and correction and retraining the prisoners in such a way as to enable them to return to a healthy social life, the following tasks shall be performed:

A- The Prison Organization is required to take measures in cooperation with the popular associations and institutions in order to activate associations patronizing families of the prisoners and the annihilated families and to create such associations in every center so that one hundred percent (100%) of all the needy families of the prisoners and the annihilated ones are covered by the associations’ support by the end of the Plan.

B- Minister of Justice is required to take steps in order to prepare a by-law for the prisoners’ work, giving priority to the proper vocational training in such a way that upon completion of the conviction period, they could receive certificate of employment and at the same time their records of the past could be removed, so that they could effectively return to the society.

ARTICLE 191- Government is required to allocate to the Judicial Power through the annual budget and in form of assistance, the equivalent of fifty percent (50%) of all revenues of all the courts of law and agencies affiliated to the Judicial Power, that are lawfully collected and are settled with the Treasury. Upon approval of the Chief Justice, the funds will be spent in the following cases in the Ministry of Justice and the organizations affiliated to the Judicial Power:

1-To build, complete and purchase buildings for administrative purposes and public housing.

2- To equip the administrative buildings and to purchase necessities and vehicles

3- To pay merit rewards, and the fee for being on duty and commission.

4- To provide for the deficit of the urgent current expenses of the entities of the judicial power.

5- To pay the expected profit rate of the facilities of the housing for the judges and the employees.

6- Other urgent cases as discerned by the Chief Justice.