Morocco Considers Digital Transformation with Electronic Courts Initiative

During the presentation of the assessment of judicial action in the courts of the Kingdom, the Deputy President of the Supreme Council of the Judiciary, Mustafa Fares, stressed the need for everyone to engage in the electronic courts project, in particular through electronic notifications, electronic deliberation and other electronic judicial services in order to keep pace with the technological acceleration experienced by the world.

He also recalled the launch of a range of technical projects announced for the current year 2020 in several pilot judicial districts before their generalization to the other jurisdictions of the Kingdom, including the application of e-deliberation in a number of services of the Court of Cassation.

According to the Attorney General of the King at the Court of Cassation, and President of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, Mohamed Abdenabaoui, the reform of the judicial system is a "strategic choice of the Kingdom" whose Sovereign has determined the orientations on several occasions, in particular in the royal speech of August 20, 2009, which laid out a roadmap to ensure the independence of the judiciary and raise it to the rank of the third power in the country.

Furthermore, during the previous judicial year, the judges handed down 3,172,653 judicial decisions, with an annual average of 1,113 decisions per judge. He maintains that this remarkable effort by the judges constitutes a significant increase compared to the year 2018. However, at the level of the Court of Cassation, a total of 51,591 cases were recorded, an increase of 2.21%, he specified, before adding that this growth reflects the great confidence of litigants in justice and the efficiency of the Court of Cassation. As for the number of cases tried in 2019, it experienced a strong increase to reach 46,726 decisions, an increase of 17.1%, while the cases resolved in less than a year were set at 77%.