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KUWAIT, Oct 6 (KUNA) -- The Kuwaiti parliamentary legislative and legal
committee has unanimously given the thumbs up to proposed amendments to
judicial laws.
Speaking to reporters following the committee meeting, Hussein al-Hureiti,
head of the parliamentary committee, said the fresh changes would ensure
judicial independence financially and administratively.
The judicial authority will have a general secretariat representing the
Supreme Judicial Council, and there will be assistant secretaries-general for
financial and administrative affairs, he said, citing the judicial amendments.
Retirement age for Kuwaiti and non-Kuwaiti judges will be extended from 70
to 75 years for the good of the Kuwaiti society, he said.
However, the government said it would need enough time to carefully ponder
over the changes, the committee head noted.
The committee voiced some reservations at overtures pertinent to civil and
social rights for bedoun or stateless people in the country, al-Hureiti said.
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