King Mohammed instructs commission entrusted with amending personal statute to submit draft before year's end

Morocco's King Mohammed VI has ordered the advisory commission entrusted with revising the personal statute code with submitting the draft to his appreciation before the end of the current year.

The sovereign issued his instructions when he was chairing Wednesday at the royal palace in the Moroccan southern Atlantic city of Agadir a work session devoted to assessing the progress made by the commission.

King Mohammed VI also issued instructions to the minister of justice regarding the setting up, progressively and the soonest possible, of family sections within all Moroccan courts, and urged the Magistracy Supreme Council to appoint the best magistrates to these sections.

At the beginning of the session, the commission chairman, Driss Dahak, presented to the sovereign, commander of the faithful, a report on the progress made by the commission and its six sub-commissions that deal with the major topics of the reform of the personal statute code.

The minister of Justice, Omar Azzimane, reported on the various measures initiated to set up standardized sections for family justice. These sections will materialize the first aspect of the reform related to a better enforcement of the current provisions of the personal statute code.

King Mohammed VI instructed the minister of justice to set up, progressively and the soonest possible, these family sections within all Moroccan courts, and urged the Magistracy Supreme Council to appoint the best magistrates to these sections.

The sovereign, who is keen on seeing the new personal statute code materialized promptly, ordered the commission to submit to his appreciation the new code before the end of the current year. The commander of the faithful insisted that the code amendment be thorough and comprehensive.

Besides the minister of justice and the chairman of the commission, the work session was attended by minister of habous (endowment) and Islamic affairs, Abdelkebir Alaoui M'daghri, the advisors to the King, Ms Zoulikha Nasri, Mohammed Kabbaj, Mohammed Moatassim and Ahmed Midaoui, and director of the royal office, Mohammed Rochdi Chra?bi.

Charge de Mission at the Royal office, Mohammed Kettani, was also present.