The role of judicial officers in Moroccan society

Meeting the needs of young people

Under the authority of the Moroccan Minister of Justice, the seminar opened with a speech from the chairman, Mohamed Ladidi, General Secretary for the Minister of Justice. He stressed how vital it is for Morocco to make constant progress in the international domain, and use its imaginative powers to help justice meet the needs of everyone, particularly young people, who are placing their hopes in an ever more reliable institution.
With regard to judicial officers, Mr. Ladidi announced that the Minister of Justice was to look into the amendment of certain texts, several of them of great relevance to judicial officers, with a view to modernising them in order to respond more effectively to the public's aspirations. The speaker added that judicial officers would be associated with these reforms.
 
Improving communication

In this respect, the profession should be better organised if it is to respond to public service requirements, and needs to be attentive in righting problems relating to delay, absence or procedural difficulties. It has to be said that "the judicial officers' mission is not always properly understood, and judges do not fully understand the problems they have to face."
Judicial officers need to improve communication to make their work more familiar to the public.
Addressing Chairman Fouganni, the General Secretary for the Minister of Justice said:
"You ought to be worthy of your mission, and I know that this is the case. You are honest, you have recognition, and you are engaged in a genuine task of training."
 
Working its way into the machinery of globalization

As regards the international aspect, it would seem that Morocco wishes to join the Hague Convention of 1965 and relations have been established with this organisation.
Chairman Fouganni, introduced by Secretary Said Bouramane, reminded those present of all that the association has contributed to the legal institution and judicial officers of this country during the 14 years since its creation. He wished for improvements in texts on enforcement procedures, and for Morocco to join the Hague Convention of 1965.
"What is in force at an international level ought to be recognised in Morocco."
In his conclusion, the Chairman of the Moroccan Association underlined all the progress achieved by his profession in working its way into the machinery of globalisation.
Jacques Isnard structured his speech around topical international subjects, highlighting Morocco's geographical position in the Mediterranean region, together with the prospects offered to this country by the European Union in terms of economic extension with the setting up of a "Euromed" hub.
According to the Chairman of UIHJ (the International Union of Judicial Officers), this situation reinforces the idea of an inevitable harmonisation of international texts between Europe and Morocco, and even other countries within the Mediterranean perimeter.
 
Developing an efficient system of enforcement

Mr. Isnard stressed the need for every country to develop an efficient system of enforcement with highly effective judicial officers, a condition "sine qua non" for rallying investors, always eager for legal security. In this respect, the profession needs to make constant progress, and increase its credibility by proving its value in the domains of not only enforcement and notification, but also discipline and morality.
The speakers who followed included Abel Didier Pansard, Chairman of the Ecole Nationale de Procédure of the CHNJ de France (National Chamber of Judicial Officers), who explained the workings of this famous training establishment for staff and fellow judicial officers in France, and Bernard Menut, the UIHJ Secretary, who gave a presentation of the 1965 Hague Convention.
This was a rich panel, which gave the seminar a prestige worthy of the ambitions of Chairman Fouganni and the Moroccan Association.