AMMAN — The new amendments to the Implementation
Law and to the Penal Code seem to have started a conflict between the Lower
House of Representatives and the
Jordan Bar Association (JBA), which said that
it might stop participating the Lower House Legal Committee meetings if it
continues to ignore the association’s proposals on draft bills.
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JBA Secretary Khaldoun Nsour told Jordan
News that the association “does not accept to have merely a nominal
presence at the meetings of the Lower House Legal Committee, which does not
take any of the proposals made by the association, whether through written or
oral notes, into consideration”.
He stressed that “the association will follow
certain legal procedures to deal with the amendments, with the aim of
preserving the Constitution and stopping the rush to pass amendments in a way
that harms the country and the public”.
“At the same time, we are ready to communicate with
the House of Representatives to reach solutions that satisfy both parties in
the event that new amendments are only implemented in new cases, not those that
are still in force,” he added.
Nsour pointed out that despite the association’s
rejection of the two draft laws, “it submitted proposals in the hope of reaching
mutually acceptable solutions, given that the association is supportive of the
work of the Lower House Legal Committee”.
He said that the association “did not agree to the
draft laws because the amendments are not in place or implemented at the right
time”, that “the association is neither for nor against imprisoning debtors”,
and that a lawyer is hired by the two parties, but, at the same time, the
“legislation should not be biased in favor of one party at the expense of
another”.
Member of the JBA board Adel Tarawneh told Jordan
News that the amendments to the Penal Code are fine, “as the
temporal and legal development calls for such amendments”.
He added that checks are no longer working as they
were in the past, “rather, they have recently become a credit tool”, and that
“the alternatives to money are now numerous”.
As for dropping the personal right claim, Tarawneh
stressed that “it is in the interest of the society”.
He also said that “the current Implementation Law is
perfectly capable to achieve justice”, and “the alternative penalties
suggested, such as the travel ban, do not work”.
“There are other alternatives that may be useful
than those that were suggested; the most prominent is preventing the criminal
from conducting transactions”, he said, adding that the authority of the state
is enforced by the issuance of judgments that are duly implemented, “so what is
the benefit of issuing judgments without implementing them?”
Member of the
Lower House Legal Committee Habes
Al-Shabeeb told Jordan News that “the
committee studied all the legal aspects before submitting the amendments to the
House of Representatives, which voted on these amendments”.
He said that “these amendments will benefit all
parties”, and stressed that they are fundamental and dictated by the “current
developments”, and that “the committee took the proposals of the bar
association in a logical and balanced way”.
The main goal of the JBA is to exercise its members’
profession, he said, “but they must also take into account the general
situation of the country, especially that prisons cost the state a large budget
and that there are a large number of inmates in prisons”.
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