Ummid Assistant

IDB scholarship forms available at Bhopal's Companion School

IGNOU's preparatory course for students desiring higher education

Welcome Guest! You are here: Home » International

Kuwait to appoint women as lawyers, judges

Tuesday September 18, 2012 08:32:24 PM, IINA

Kuwait City: In a breakthrough decision taken by Kuwait's High Judiciary Council, women in Kuwait will soon be appointed to the judiciary and would also be able to practice as lawyers.

Female graduates from the colleges of law and Sharia will be able to join fellow male graduates in the appointment to the public prosecution following a decision by the High Judiciary Council, legal sources told local Arabic daily Al Jareeda.

 

The Council has informed Jamal Al Sheehab, the justice minister, about the move and he did not mind. Appointments to the public prosecution will be gradually followed by appointments as judges in specific areas, the sources added.

 

The Council said that Kuwaiti women have been appointed to almost all areas and that some became government ministers.

 

“There is no legal text or provisions in the constitution that bars women from working in the judiciary,” the Council reportedly said.

 

“The parliament at one time approved the appointment of 190 women as investigators in the public prosecution, so it is not really something new for the parliament even though it did not materialize.”

According to the sources, the Council will initially appoint five to seven female public prosecutors.

 

“It will be like a try to familiarize the Kuwaiti society with the development and it will be followed by the appointment of female judges,” the sources said.

 

Applications for the positions will be accepted from graduates with high scores ranging between 80 per cent for the law college and 90 per cent for the Sharia faculty from September 23 to October 11 by the justice ministry, the sources said.

 

Successful candidates will undergo a two-year training focusing on personal status, printing, publishing and audio-visual, and juvenile prosecution sections. The female prosecutors will need a five to seven year experience before they are appointed judges, the sources said.

In June 2006, Bahrain became the first Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) country to appoint a woman judge. Mona Jassem Al Kawari was appointed to the civil courts.

 

In the UAE, Kholoud Ahmad Jouan Al Dhaheri became in March 2008 the country’s first female judge. In 2010, Qatar appointed Sheikha Maha Mansour Al Thani as its first woman judge.

 

Morocco was the first Arab country to have a woman judge when it appointed Amina Abdul Razzak as a judge in a Rabat court in 1961.

 

Kuwaiti women have recently succeeded to make strides in areas that had been strictly confined to men.

 

In 2005, the parliament agreed to give women full political rights and allowed them to vote and stand in parliamentary and local elections for the first time in the country’s history.

 

In 2009 four women won seats in the 50-member parliament in the only successful bid.



 

 


 

Home | Top of the Page

Comments

Note: By posting your comments here you agree to the terms and conditions of www.ummid.com

Comments powered by DISQUS

i

i

 

More Headlines

Braveheart girl on Chandigarh cops' receiving end over FB comments

Raj Thackeray backs FDI in retail, demands jobs only for locals

EU asks Britain to stop using X-ray scanners

States have prerogative not to allow FDI in multi-brand retail: Government

Kochi Startup Village to have 2,000 IT firms

Doha gets another Indian school

BJP MPs walk out of 2G JPC meet, say no point in continuing

Syrian rebels offer $25 mn bounty for Assad

'Special' mothers to take care of 'special' children

Aseem Trivedi and nuggets of wisdom

 

Top Stories

Setback for Zardari: Letter closing graft cases to be withdrawn

Zardari and Bhutto were suspected of using Swiss accounts to launder about $12 million in alleged bribes paid by companies seeking customs inspection contracts in the 1990s.  »

Pakistani PM granted time till Sep 18 to reply in court

First for Pakistan, PM indicted for contempt

 

  Most Read

States have prerogative not to allow FDI in multi-brand retail: Government

Amid growing protests against its decision to allow foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail  »

Raj Thackeray backs FDI in retail, demands jobs only for locals

BJP MPs walk out of 2G JPC meet, say no point in continuing

BJP members of a parliamentary panel probing the 2G spectrum allocation walked out of a meeting Tuesday against the chairman's refusal to call Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to depose, saying they felt there was no point in continuing to be members of the committee.  »

 

  News Pick

Syrian rebels offer $25 mn bounty for Assad

The rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) has offered a $25 million reward for the capture - dead or alive - of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Turkey's Anadolu news agency reported Tuesday. FSA commander Ahmed Hijazi said the  »

RBI cuts CRR by 0.25 percent; repo rate unchanged

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in a bid to increase liquidity in the system, Monday cut by 0.25 percent the cash reserve ratio (CRR), the proportion  »

Sensex closes 78 points up to touch 14-month high

Ex-militants in Kashmir feel betrayed

Back home and jobless, many Kashmiri militants who returned from Pakistan following appeals from the Jammu and Kashmir government said Monday they are in the lurch. Dozens of locals who had gone over to Pakistan during  »

When people turned a blind eye: Story of a Dalit woman

Here is a true story of a dalit woman who was tied in a pole and was disrobed, severely beaten, her face painted black and her head tonsured, all done in full public view, but none come to her rescue. The poor lady begged for mercy,  »

 

Picture of the Day

Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and President of the Palestine National Authority Mahmoud Abbas at the delegation level talks, in New Delhi on September 11, 2012.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

RSS  |  Contact us

 

| Quick links

News

 

Subscribe to

Ummid Assistant

 

National

Science & Technology

RSS

Scholarships

About us

International

Health

Twitter

Government Schemes

Feedback

Regional

History

Facebook

Education

Register

Politics

Opinion

Newsletter

Contact us

Business

Career

Education

     

 

 

Ummid.com: Disclaimer | Terms of Use | Advertise with us | Link Exchange

Ummid.com is part of the Awaz Multimedia & Publications providing World News, News Analysis and Feature Articles on Education, Health. Politics, Technology, Sports, Entertainment, Industry etc. The articles or the views displayed on this website are for public information and in no way describe the editorial views. The users are entitled to use this site subject to the terms and conditions mentioned.

© 2012 Awaz Multimedia & Publications. All rights reserved.