Definition of the committee

The Judicial Aid Committee emerged from the Bar Association in Tripoli. It includes several lawyers. The purpose of the committee is to facilitate the judicial representation for any person unable to pay through a judicial representative who undertakes to defend him before the various courts and judicial authorities.

Appointment and formation of the committee

The board of the Bar Association appoints the members of the committee. The members must be three at least, including the president and the reporter. The duration of the committee is one year, starting on December 1st and ending on October 31.

The board of the Bar Association is entitled to dissolve the committee and modify its membership or duties.

The work of the committee is presided over by a lawyer chosen by the board of the Bar. In the presence of the president of the Bar, the meetings shall be presided over by him.

The committee holds its meetings periodically or if need be, at the Bar headquarters after notifying the secretariat.

Any member of the board of the Bar is entitled to attend the meetings of the committee if he wishes.

Duties of the Judicial Aid Committee

The Judicial Aid Committee undertakes to study all the difficulties that hinder the judicial aid and finds the proper solutions for them, whether on the practical or the theoretical level.

In addition to this consultative and organizational role, the committee receives all the demands transferred to it by the president of the Bar to study them and suggest the names of the lawyers who shall undertake the defense of the concerned persons, then returns them to the president of the Bar in order to issue the authorization in the name of the recommended lawyer.

Members of the committee

The president of the Bar Association in Tripoli appointed “the Judicial Aid Committee” for the year 2007 as follows:

The Lawyer Fahd El-Mukaddem as President

The following lawyers as members: 
 
Karami Chalak Ali Youssef
Toni Hayek Amer Ishac
Theodore Matta Hamid Franjieh
Ghinwa El-Ayyoubi Hassan Khayal
Raed Salti Hayssam Jaber
Zeina Akkawi Adnan Zok
Mohamad Singer Rania El-Jamal
Mahmoud Em Hani Youssef Sabet
Mirna Assoum Omar Mourad
Naiya Kharouta Kanaan Wansa
Ibrahim Harfoush Joseph Saleh