King Mohammed calls for auditing legislation to preserve public money
King Mohammed VI on Wednesday urged the government to hasten the drafting of laws governing audit courts that he described as "a means to preserve public money against all forms of misappropriation or abuse."
"We urge the government to hasten the drafting of laws governing the Audit Court and the regional audit courts, as a judicial frame destined to preserve public money against all forms of misappropriation or abuse," the king said at the opening of the Higher Magistrature Council.
The Council, chaired by the king, is the highest judicial authority in the country.
King Mohammed VI also announced a series of measures "to face up all forms of abuses and ensure the preeminence of law and justice."
"In order to enlarge the scope of evolution and modernization, we have decided to gradually increase the number of trade courts and to create administrative courts of appeal in the perspective of setting up a State Council that will crown the judiciary and administrative pyramid of our country and face up all forms of abuse and ensure the supremacy of law and justice."
Morocco numbers six trade courts started in 1997 to rule on cases related to trade and settle commercial contentions.
This package of measures seeks to modernize justice and enable the system consolidate social justice, the king said.
He voiced aspiration to see the Moroccan justice developed and renovated to face up the new realities of the contemporary world and "to endeavor in harmony with the actions that we are determined to carry out and with the objectives for which we called for mobilization according to a new vision of responsibility and a new conception of authority."
The king conceded that justice cannot attain these objectives unless "we guarantee to this corps the indispensable respect and efficiency."
The king, who stressed the importance of the sound training of magistrates, called for the restructuring of the Rabat-based National Institute of Judiciary Studies.
