Minister of Justice, Mr. Abdellatif Ouahbi was the guest last Sunday evening, January 8, 2023 to 2M TV show “With Ramadani” to discuss many hot issues that have recently concerned Moroccan public opinion.
The current debate going on in Moroccan social media following the announcement by the Ministry of Justice exam results for bar profession was the main topic of the first question asked to the Minister who responded that “bar profession is open as it doesn’t concern job positions and that there’s a committee which is in charge of supervising exams that were set up in excellent conditions.”
Minister Ouahbi added that a number of candidates who have rejected the exam results have submitted claims to the Ministry of Justice for reviewing exams papers and this concerns 103 candidates who have actually seen their exam papers and have got informed about true or false answers, saying “The reality is that those who have succeeded have in fact succeeded, even more than that we have lowered grades levels average required for success for the sake of increasing the number of successful candidates from 800 to 2000.”
Minister Ouahbi stated that he is ready to carry out any kind of investigation on the subject, in case there are some rights violations; and actually the Justice Ministry has started practical procedures on the basis of claims request from concerned candidates to review their exam papers.
Minister Ouahbi has highlighted in his reaction to the participation of some staff from the Justice Ministry in the exam saying “I have no right to ban anyone from participating in this exam, as long as candidates fulfill necessary conditions (BA + to be below 45 years old). Exams are open to everybody and as a proof, have taken the exam staff from security, education, registrars, nurses..” and only after the staff candidate passes the exam successfully (both written oral session) then he/she will be requested by the senior lawyer of the bar association to submit his/her resignation from his/her older job to practice legally the bar profession.