Amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code in the rest of Iraq are dealt with here. The view of Kurdish lawyers, judges and legislators is that, save for laws relating to the exclusive federal powers as listed in Article 110 of the 2005 Constitution, and following Kurdish Decree No. 11 of 1992 (arabic), new laws and […]
Read MoreAfter the 1958 Revolution, Iraq had a series of interim or temporary constitutions. The Revolutionary Command Council as a legislative power came into being in 1963, pursuant to Law No. 25 of 1963 which was replaced by Law No. 61 of 1964, amended by Law No. 173 of 1964 and then repealed by Law No. […]
Read MoreThe structure of the Kurdistan Regional court and judicial system closely follows that of the Federal judiciary. Decree No. 11 of August 1992 and the Judicial Authority Law No. 44 of December 1992 set out the basis for the judiciary in the region as an autonomous independent establishment of the Kurdistan Regional Government. The Courts […]
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