Call for accountability on court’s negligence to submit documents

Group of experts still suffering from effects of discrimination

KUWAIT CITY, May 16: The Syndicate of Workers in the General Administration of Experts have sent a letter to the Minister of Justice, Counselor Jamal AlJalawi, asking him to hold the one responsible for the Ministry of Justice’s negligence in submitting documents to the Special Court on the jobs of experts, which forfeited their rights, reports Al-Rai daily.

The letter addressed on behalf of the head of the union, Nasser Al-Mutairi, of which Al-Rai has obtained a copy, indicated that based on the administrative ruling on the appeal issued on 4/18/2022, which decided to cancel the decision to appoint one of the contestants and obliged the administration, represented by the Ministry of Justice, to pay the expenses, it was said the reasons was that the Ministry of Justice did not submit the required documents before the court and deliberately withheld them, which cost more than 500 experts their rights.

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It is worth noting that the General Administration of Experts are still suffering from the effects of the ruling of discrimination 911 of 2019, which is the largest ruling in the history of Kuwait, which stipulated the annulment of decisions to appoint more than 500 experts for the same reasons, which is the administration’s negligence in submitting documents and the weakness of its defense despite the sound procedures.

The Syndicate denounced the Ministry’s failure to defend the rights of its members and its intentionality to lose their rights and its lack of seriousness in facing the lawsuits filed against it regarding the announcement of the recruitment of the General Administration of experts, which the Syndicate had previously warned about in its letter sent to the fatwa and legislation on

06/27/2021, i.e. a year ago and we mentioned it the necessity of submitting defenses and documents before the current cases, because of which it is possible to repeat the invalidation of a payment that has no guilt, as happened previously.

The union clarified that in the face of the repetition of such actions that indicate negligence and deliberate harm to the experts, indifference towards these lawsuits and their lack of seriousness in addressing the recurring defect, which harms the reputation of the Ministry and the administration and an important facility that helps the delegates, and even harms the reputation of the state in terms of transparency, integrity and combating Corruption, the union has set its demands to refer the culprit who failed to submit documents and defend before the court to the investigation in preparation for holding him accountable, regardless of his position, in addition to taking all measures that guarantee confronting these lawsuits and responding to them, providing all documents that confirm the integrity of the procedures and granting all those entitled to their rights, while ensuring that no Repeat such behavior in the future.