Beirut hosts first Arab international justice conference

The Lebanese capital, Beirut, is to host today the first Arab international conference on justice, organized by the Arab Center for the Independence of Lawyers and Judges, a non-governmental organization in Cairo, in cooperation with the international center for lawyers and judges' independence and the syndicate of Lebanese lawyers.

The conference will be chaired by Awad El-Mor, the ex-head of the Egyptian supreme constitutional court and Farouk El-Kilani, the ex-head of Jordan's justice court.

Through 15 research papers, the conference will discuss legal regulations for judges in the Arab region, their most important political effects on the Arab judicial system, and the vocational challenges facing the Arab lawyers and judges.

In the conference, judges, law professors and lawyers will take part from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Mauritania, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and Tunisia.

Naser Amin, the center's chairman, said that it was decided to hold this conference in Cairo, yet when the necessary security licenses were delayed, the desire to hold the conference on its date prompted the center to hold the conference in Lebanon.