The government council adopted in its meeting held last Thursday August 24, 2023, the civil code bill as presented in its final version by Minister of Justice Mr. Abdellatif Ouahbi. The adoption of this project bill by the government council is considered as a revolution in the Kingdom’s legal system and it is expected that it will change judiciary action tools and orientations after long decades of expectations and preparation and will undoubtedly contribute to improve judiciary and justice institutional action to meet citizens’ expectations and to reinforce judiciary efficiency and achieve justice.
The adoption of the project bill by the government council has come in the context of executing royal instructions aimed at reforming the judiciary and reinforcing the justice apparatus in the country. It will also aim at achieving a bigger balance between justice and citizens and will provide more transparent and more efficient measures.
The civil code bill is seen as a new step towards achieving development and positive transformation in the legal environment and will have a greater impact on enhancing justice reputation and trust-building process between citizens and the justice system.
Among major goals of the project, it’s worth mentioning that the civil code bill has been reexamined on the ground of constitutional and legislative data unknown before and which have required the enact of a new complete and integrated law which would fill up voids left by reality and will achieve the following points:
- Reinforcing the conditions for fair trial and efficiency of all litigation procedures.
- Overcoming negative role of civilian judge in supervising litigation measures.
- Processing some shortcomings seen in some judicial practices that render measures more complicated.
- Coping with international legislative progress and with international agreements basics and new transformations worldwide at different levels.
- Achieving a kind of proximity justice in referring to the unity of judiciary and its various specialties.
- Reinforcing the reliance of modern technology means in handling litigation procedures in order to benefit from digital revolution and technology progress.
- Simplifying procedures and measures and making easier access to justice, reducing deadlines and embracing efficiency in informing and executing, relying on information data base and using e-administration in treating files.
- Embracing efficiency and activeness in executing judiciary curricula by creating the execution judge establishment defining his/her competencies and procedures to be followed.