King Mohammed VI appoints 79 judicial officials to Moroccan courts

King Mohammed VI, President of the Judicial Supreme Council, has approved the appointment of judicial officials in a number of courts across the Kingdom for the first session of 2022.

According to a statement to the Supreme Council of Judicial Authority, a copy of which Hespress received, these appointments concerned 79 important tasks of judicial responsibility, more than 35% of the overall positions of judicial responsibility in Moroccan courts.  It concerns:

• 5 first presidents of the Courts of Appeal;
• First President of the Commercial Court of Appeal;
• First President of the Administrative Court of Appeal;
• 14 public prosecutors of the King before the Courts of Appeal;
• Public Prosecutor of the King to the Commercial Court of Appeal;
• 20 presidents of the courts of first instance;
• 4 presidents of commercial courts;
• 2 presidents of two administrative courts;
• 31 attorneys for the King before the courts of first instance.

These appointments also concerned seven female judges, including five female judges who assume responsibility for the first time, out of the 32 judges who were assigned responsibility for the first time during this cycle, this represents 40.50% of the total positions of responsibility covered by the change.

The Council congratulated “the new judicial officials for the trust placed in them,” stressing its motivating them “to carry out their duties with the necessary seriousness and firmness, with greater will and determination, and to take initiatives aimed at the fair application of the law, and to provide the necessary conditions for a fair trial, and to respect the reasonable time for deciding and implementing cases.”

“The council’s general secretariat will determine the date of assigning the relevant judicial officials in their new duties,” said a release from the authority.

The Council indicated that “the new appointments referred to above, made for the first session of the year 2022, are in addition to the changes that concerned the positions of judicial responsibility during the year 2021, which included 118 positions of judicial responsibility, which raises the number of changes in the positions of judicial responsibility within less than two years to 197 positions, equivalent to 83% of the total positions of judicial responsibility in the Kingdom’s courts.