Judge Zidan: Judiciary full independence is the basic guarantee to preserve the law

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23-09-2023, 13:40

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Baghdad-INA

The president of the Supreme Judicial Council, Judge Faiq Zidan, confirmed on Saturday, that the complete independence of the Judiciary is the basic guarantee for preserving the law.

“The Judiciary, before 2003, was part of the executive authority, given that the Minister of Justice was the one who ran the Judiciary, as we witnessed in that era many practices that made the judiciary lose its independence,” Zidan said, in his speech during the opening ceremony of the emergency office meeting of the Arab Lawyers Union in Baghdad, attended by the reporter of The Iraqi News Agency (INA). Stressing that “the complete independence of the judiciary is the basic guarantee for preserving the law.”

"After the change of the political system in 2003 and the vote on the Constitution in 2005, the Judiciary became an independent authority from the legislative and executive authorities," stressing that "this independence is real and tangible."