The overall legal framework in Moroccois not a priority area for reform. The law-making process,however, is weak, resulting in poorly drafted laws, andlegal dissemination is inadequate. Legal education reliesupon outdated curricula and is offered in competinglanguages, French and Arabic, the selection of which largelydetermines students' choices for future employment. Thetraining of legal professionals is minimal and is poorlysupervised. The general public has little access to legalinformation. Legal aid is embryonic and restricted tocriminal matters. This assessment of the legal and judicialsector offers recommendations in the areas of case lawdissemination, capacity building of the law-makinginstitutions, development of a legal toolkit for judges,redesign of legal studies, training of legal professionalsto improve quality, supervision of translators and experts,redirecting the activities of lawyers towards legal advice,expanding the notaries, redesigning court operations,expanding judicial participation on the High Council for theJudiciary and ensuring greater judicial independence,offering professionalized training to the judiciary,including language proficiency as a criteria for recruitmentand promotion, obtaining judicial consent for judicialtransfers, making public judicial resources, improving thetransparency of the inspection process, drafting a code oflegal ethics, training for non-judicial appointments,developing court management capacities, improving personnelmanagement, acknowledgment of the profession of registrar,reviewing and enforcing the regulations concerning judicialexperts, further decentralizing of the management of thejudicial budgets and development of budget managementcapacity, improving court statistics, upgrading judicialinfrastructure, court construction and renovation,overhauling the entire enforcement system, development ofpublic information procedures, improving access of thepublic to legal information and advice, and enactment of thearbitration code.
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