This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Hibapress-Rabat-MJ
The day before yesterday, the Committee on Justice, Legislation, Human Rights and Freedoms of the House of Representatives approved, by majority, Bill N ° 02.23 relating to the civil procedure, second reading, as returned by the Chamber of Advisers. The bill was approved last week by majority, with 13 deputies for, 6 deputies against and no abstention.
The fundamental amendments brought to this bill by the members of the Commission of Justice, Legislation and Human Rights of the House of Councilors are the abolition of the provisions relating to fines in order to guarantee the litigants the right of access to justice and to ensure access to justice in accordance with the will of the constitutional legislator in the articles relating to the introduction of legal actions, the presentation of the means of defense and the defamation procedure Judges, and the revision of the specific incompetence rules by stipulating that the court or the specialized section must make an independent decision on the exception of specific incompetence with the possibility of appeal within ten days from the date of notification thereof.
The rules relating to specific incompetence have also been revised by providing that the jurisdiction or the specialized section must rule independently on the exception of specific incompetence, with the possibility of appeal within ten days from the date of notification, and that if the jurisdiction of the second instance rules on competence, it automatically refers the file to the competent jurisdiction, provided that the decision of the second instance either likely of any ordinary or extraordinary recourse, and that the exception of specific incompetence cannot be raised for the first time before the Court of Cassation.
