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A number of parliamentary representatives unanimously agreed that this text constitutes an important reform step in the process of modernizing the justice system, by enhancing transparency within the legal profession, establishing guarantees for exercising the right to defense, and consecrating the position of the lawyer as a key actor in ensuring the conditions for a fair trial and preserving the rights and freedoms of litigants, in a way that enhances confidence in the judiciary and strengthens the foundations of the state of right and law. During the discussion of Draft Law No. 66.23 regarding the organization of the legal profession in the Justice and Legislation Committee, on Wednesday, the representatives considered that the draft came to establish a new stage in regulating the profession, by strengthening the legal framework framing the relationship between the lawyer and his client, devoting mechanisms for financial and contractual transparency, developing the conditions for access to the profession and raising the level of training by requiring academic qualifications and professional training tracks, in addition to strengthening the guarantees related to defense immunity and respect for professional ethics, keeping pace with digital transformation and modernizing work methods within professional bodies, with Openness to alternative solutions for resolving disputes and developing the role of the lawyer in legal jurisprudence. The representatives also highlighted that the project falls within a broader dynamic to reform the justice system, and enjoys the support of various parliamentary teams, emphasizing its importance in strengthening the independence of the profession, strengthening it and modernizing its organizational structures, while registering a set of proposals aimed at improving it, including strengthening training and supervision, developing disciplinary procedures and guarantees of appeal, and improving the governance of professional bodies, ensuring a balanced formula that responds to the aspirations of professionals and at the same time serves the quality and effectiveness of justice. Promoting transparency and defense rights. Zeina Adahli, on behalf of the National Rally of Independents in the House of Representatives, confirmed that Draft Law No. 66.23 regulating the legal profession constitutes a qualitative step towards enhancing transparency within the profession and consolidating defense guarantees, by adopting clear mechanisms to frame the relationship between the lawyer and his client, and strengthening the legal protection for lawyers while exercising their duties. She explained that this reform approach falls within the framework of modernizing the judicial system in Morocco, by achieving a greater balance between the rights of various parties, and ensuring the conditions for a fair trial, in a way that enhances confidence in justice and consolidates the position of the legal profession as a basic pillar in building a state of right and law. The spokeswoman confirmed that the project was the result of an extensive consultative process that brought together the government and lawyers’ bodies, which produced a rich and responsible discussion accompanied by various components of public opinion, and contributed to the crystallization of a balanced formula that responds to the aspirations of professionals and keeps pace with the transformations witnessed by the legal and judicial system, adding that the return of the project to the legislative institution in its current form reflects a keenness to implement the outcomes of the dialogue in a way that serves the present and future of the profession. She highlighted that the legal profession remains one of the basic pillars of achieving justice, as it is a free and independent profession that plays a pivotal role in preserving rights and freedoms, stressing that the role of the lawyer is not limited to pleading before the courts, but rather constitutes a key actor in achieving balance within the judicial system and ensuring respect for the conditions of a fair trial, making him a central link between the citizen and the judiciary. She added that the legal profession, from the perspective of the collective group, is a noble message before it is a profession, because of the values it carries of defending truth and justice, recalling the historical roles played by lawyers in defending the rights of Moroccans, which consolidates their position as one of the pillars of building a state of right and law. She also stressed that the lawyer embodies in his daily work the constitutional right to defense, and contributes to protecting individuals from any abuse or violation, thus enhancing confidence in justice. It noted that the project not only strengthens guarantees, but also opens new horizons for developing the profession, by encouraging alternative solutions to resolve disputes, such as reconciliation, mediation and arbitration, which reduces pressure on the courts and provides faster and more effective solutions, in addition to the contribution of lawyers in developing legal jurisprudence through their pleadings and memorandums that enrich judicial jurisprudence. In presenting the latest developments in the text, she explained that the project establishes financial and contractual transparency by imposing a “written assignment” that accurately defines the lawyer-client relationship, separating the funds of the two parties, and creating a unified system for managing fees and deposits, which reduces disputes and enhances trust. It also opens the way for young lawyers to benefit from new forms of practice, whether individual or collective, through professional partnership and cohabitation contracts, with the possibility of cooperating with foreign lawyers in accordance with legal controls. She pointed out that the project strengthens the legal framework for the profession by unifying procedures, raising the quorum to create bodies of lawyers, strengthening disciplinary powers while preserving defense immunity, as well as establishing an integrated training path that guarantees advanced scientific and professional qualification, through basic training and field training within lawyers’ offices and public institutions. In the same context, she stressed that the project enhances respect for the traditions and customs of the profession, through the obligation to wear professional uniform before judicial and disciplinary bodies, and by consolidating the values framing professional practice, in a way that preserves the prestige of the profession and safeguards its position within society. Adahli concluded by stressing that the National Rally of Independents team will deal positively with the contents of the project, and will work to improve it from within the legislative institution, as it is a reform step aimed at modernizing the legal profession and enhancing its role in the justice system, consolidating the balance between the rights of lawyers and litigants, supporting young talents, and openness to international experiences, in a way that contributes to building effective and fair justice that enshrines the dignity of the citizen and the principle of equality before the law. Consecrating the position of the lawyer and the defense in the courts. The Authenticity and Modernity Team in the House of Representatives confirmed that Draft Law No. 66.23 regulating the legal profession consecrates the position of the lawyer within the justice system, and raises the quality of defense within the courts, thus enhancing fair trial guarantees and strengthening litigants’ confidence in justice. The team leader, Ahmed Al-Tawizi, explained during an intervention before the Justice and Legislation Committee that the project constitutes a qualitative legislative step aimed at advancing and strengthening the legal profession, by developing the conditions for access to it, strengthening the training system, and devoting professional guarantees to lawyers during the performance of their duties, in addition to consolidating the ethics of the profession and linking it to the values of independence, integrity and responsibility, while keeping pace with the digital transformation and modernizing the methods of work within professional bodies, which reflects positively on the quality of defense and service. litigants. Al-Tawizi pointed out that the draft law does not only aim to frame a professional practice, but rather places the legal profession, with the defense mission at its heart, within the core of the comprehensive reform of the justice system, after a long course of discussion and consultation between the various stakeholders, which ended with the logic of consensus and wisdom prevailing. Regarding the contents of the project, he explained that it was contained in 146 articles, compared to 103 articles in the current text, carrying a set of developments, including strengthening the position of the lawyer, strengthening professional practice, developing the conditions for access to the profession, upgrading the training system, enhancing professional ethics, and enshrining professional guarantees during the performance of defense tasks, in addition to making keeping up with digital transformation a basic priority. He stressed that these requirements should not be viewed from a narrow professional angle, but rather in their connection to serving the litigant, enhancing the quality of defense, and raising the level of confidence in justice, highlighting that the project established a new vision for entering the profession based on quality and merit, by creating an institute for training lawyers, linking entry to a master’s degree in legal sciences, setting the age of entry, and adopting a dual training path that combines academic qualification and field training. He added that the project included a profound reform of the conditions for practicing the profession, by examining cases of inconsistency to protect the independence of the lawyer, and opening new horizons for practice through modern forms, such as professional civil companies, and the possibility of cooperation with foreign lawyers and law firms, in keeping with the development of economic transactions. It also highlighted the project’s strengthening of the principles of professional ethics, linking practice to the values of independence, integrity and responsibility, while approving the mandatory professional civil liability insurance to protect litigants, in addition to adopting digitization within professional bodies, enhancing transparency in the management of professional paths, reorganizing the status of the trainee lawyer, and clarifying the relationship between professional bodies and judicial institutions. Al-Twizi considered that support for this project reflects a firm conviction of the Authenticity and Modernity team, stressing that the parliamentary discussion and the proposed amendments will only increase the strength and coherence of the text, and that the political alignment supporting it represents comprehensive support for the path of reforming justice and the status of defense within the state of right and law. He concluded by emphasizing that this project embodies an advanced stage of maturity of the Moroccan institutional experience, and reflects a collective will to build modern justice based on a balance between the independence of the judiciary, the strength of defense, and the protection of the rights of litigants, considering that strengthening the legal profession is in its essence strengthening justice, and that free and responsible defense remains the basic guarantee for a fair trial, enhances citizens’ confidence in the law and institutions, and consolidates the image of Morocco as a country that respects rights and freedoms and believes in the rule of law. A law to reform justice and the independence of defense. The Independent Unity and Equity Team in the House of Representatives considered that the draft law on regulating the legal profession falls at the heart of the justice system reform dynamic, and constitutes an important legislative step that will strengthen the independence of the defense profession and consolidate its position within the judicial system, as one of the basic components of ensuring the conditions for a fair trial and the protection of rights and freedoms. Representative Abdel Moneim Al-Fattahi explained that this project reflects a clear will to continue justice reform workshops, by modernizing the legal framework regulating the legal profession, in keeping with the constitutional and legal transformations that the Kingdom is experiencing, and at the same time responds to the requirements of developing professional practice and enhancing the efficiency of the judicial system. Al-Fattahi added that the project, which sparked a wide debate before it was referred to the legislative institution, includes requirements with a deep institutional dimension, aiming to restore the reputation of the legal profession as an integral part of the judicial family, and an essential partner in achieving justice, and ensuring the conditions for a fair trial as is known in modern democratic systems, and as approved by the Moroccan constitution and international agreements ratified by the Kingdom. The speaker noted that this new legislative framework is based on a vision that seeks to establish the legal profession as a free and independent profession, practiced in accordance with clear legal controls, ensuring the protection of this profession from everything that might affect its noble mission, and enhancing its ability to carry out its roles in defending the rights of litigants and preserving their dignity before the judiciary. He pointed out that the project came in the context of a comprehensive review of the current law No. 28.08, which, as he put it, has become out of step with the transformations witnessed by the justice system, and does not reflect the true position that the legal profession now occupies within the judicial system, whether at the level of guaranteeing the right to defense or consolidating the elements of a fair trial in its various dimensions. Al-Fattahi considered that the project adopts a comprehensive vision that aims to advance the profession, by enhancing the training and continuous training of lawyers, and keeping pace with national and international legislative developments related to the judiciary, in addition to establishing regulatory mechanisms that will improve the conditions of professional practice, and strengthen the relationship between the lawyer and his client on the basis of trust, clarity and mutual responsibility. In the same context, the Independent Team for Unity and Equality confirmed that it will submit a number of observations and proposals aimed at improving the legal text, including accelerating the establishment of an institute for training lawyers for the benefit of those who succeed in the competitions, and opening the way for young people within the profession to assume management and representation responsibilities by reviewing some regulatory requirements, in addition to strengthening the guarantees related to disciplinary procedures, and empowering the lawyer with the right to appeal at two levels, as well as addressing the problem of compensation related to judicial contribution tasks. Al-Fattahi concluded his intervention by emphasizing that the independence team views this project as an important reform milestone, requiring an in-depth and responsible discussion within Parliament, with the aim of reaching a balanced legal formula that guarantees the development of the legal profession, and at the same time enhances the efficiency and justice of the judicial system in general.
