Up to 1,876 recovery cases judged each day en bloc in an «autopilot» mode, each of the judges pinned down returned to a «human» pace. Said judges have adopted a more sensible pace when dealing with similar cases at the Casablanca Court of First Instance.
Individuals and businesses are among the thousands of victims affected by the debt recovery cases, dealt with in an extremely rapid way and unbeknownst to debtors at the Casablanca Court of First Instance. The practices did not exclude small associations and NGOs that help children, young people and people in need.
More than 81,375 recovery cases were handled by a Casablanca court in almost record periods and unbeknownst to debtors. The practices unveiled by Yabiladi are denounced by consumer rights organizations.
After Yabiladi revealed that thousands of debt recovery cases were being handled in an extremely rapid way and without giving a chance to debtors to defend their cases, the main judges involved in these practices seem to have lowered the pace of their work. Will the new pace remain the same ?
An uproar has started among lawyers, bailiffs, judges and companies involved in the industrialization of justice and the privatization of the Casablanca court of First Instance, simply known now as #MahkamaGate.
AXA Assurance Maroc, a subsidiary of the French multinational insurance firm, sued the Socialist Union of Popular Forces (USFP) party and its newspaper Al Ittihad al Ichtiraki for an unpaid insurance premium. Within a week, the justice minister’s party was sentenced without being able to defend itself in court.
After Yabiladi revealed that more than 81,375 recovery cases were handled by a Casablanca court in almost record periods and unbeknownst to debtors, the second part of the investigation unveils the names of the lawyers, judges and creditors involved in most of these cases. Most of the data featured in the paper is available on courts portal mahakim.ma.
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