Minister Abdellatif Ouahbi presents at the House of Councilors the Justice Ministry’s plan to implement court digitizing and judicial efficiency

Minister of Justice Mr. Abdellatif Ouahbi has confirmed that justice digitizing has become today a strategic major project that is being stressed in all national backgrounds, highlighting that the Moroccan judiciary could not keep abreast with current development except through digitizing the system.

Minister Ouahbi stated last Tuesday, April 19, 2022 in his response to questions made by members of the House of Councilors during an oral session, that the Ministry of Justice hopes to rehabilitate current judiciary system to adapt to the use of modern technology in processing and managing directly judicial and administrative regulations.

Minister Ouahbi added in this context that a new directory was created inside the Ministry responsible for digitizing the project and it includes 250 employees, to reinforce human, institutional, legislative and regulatory capabilities, through supporting training in the field of digitizing justice and follow up with new qualitative positions.

The Minister has stressed that the Justice Ministry has started the implementation of this digitizing project through the start-up of e-performance services for fines of contraventions and offences detected by fixed radars; and this with coordination with all interveners in traffic safety, to ensure efficiency in achieving road security. The Minister said that this service is about an electronic system which helps payment electronically, rapid, free of charge and guaranteed.

The Minister of Justice has disclosed that the Ministry has submitted to the government’s general secretariat, a bill which regulates the digitizing of judiciary measures in both civil and criminal respects; the fact which would help the use of digital system in judiciary procedures in its various proportions, electronically at different courts o justice in Morocco, including e-reporting, stating in this regard “our hope over the four years is to reach the goal of digitizing use in all phases of public lawsuits”.

Minister Ouahbi has reminded that the Ministry of Justice is working right now on preparing two bills, one about digitizing of marriage contracts and the second one about digitizing of land conservation, which will be submitted to the government’s general secretariat soon.