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House refers Execution Law amendments back to its Legal Committee

By Raed Omari - Sep 06,2015 - Last updated at Sep 06,2015

Deputy Rula Hroub, third from left, speaks to colleagues on the sidelines of a Lower House session on Sunday (Photo by Osama Aqarbeh)

AMMAN — The Lower House on Sunday referred the 2015 amendments to the Execution Law to its Legal Committee for further examination upon a request by MP Rula Hroub (Stronger Jordan list) who opposed the “law’s inhumane and martial aspects”.

Hroub, a member of the House’s Public Freedoms Committee, issued a statement in which she called for re-examining the law, citing its service to the creditors at the expense of debtors. 

In her 13-point statement, a copy of which was seen by The Jordan Times, Hroub charged that the new amendments to the Execution Law serve the banks and monopolising companies at the expense of most Jordanian people who will have to face “tough” proceedings for failure to pay their debts.

She also charged that the new law will add more expenses to the Treasury resulting from the increasing number of convicted people on charges related to accumulated debts.

The MP also explained that the new law “violates fair trial guarantees” by cancelling the multiple notifications to debtors and making it enough to begin legal action against them immediately after they receive the first notification.

Hroub’s argument was supported by a majority of the 150-strong House who requested that the law be referred back to the Legal Committee for more review. 

Head of the panel, MP Mustafa Amawi (Islamic Centrist Party list), said the new law is “in the service of the reform process”, adding that some cases take tens of years in court.

 

Minister of Justice Bassam Talhouni said that the government took into consideration all notes it had received from various social segments while drafting the law, explaining that the new amendments were primarily meant to accelerate litigation procedures.    

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