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Fifth: Law Department
It is a central Department with no branches. It gives legal
opinion and advice on cases put to it by public legal persons and
public companies. It develops and reviews draft laws due to be
issued as well as draft conventions to which the Jamhirya is a
party. Besides exercising oversight of legal advisors in the State,
it examines disciplinary actions in respect of top level
management staff as well as financial contraventions as the
Supreme Disciplinary Council is placed in this Department. It
further participates in all financial disciplinary sessions and
undertakes to discipline both contract editors and summoning
officers and attend to their entries in legally established registers
before they are permitted to take up their jobs. It finally
examines grievances and settlements of persons concerned
regarding their functional affairs.
To evolve an integrated image of the judicial business in the
Jamhirya, the table below shows a statistics indicating members
of the judicial bodies and another traces the number of cases
examined by these bodies:
Judicial Body
Court of Appeal and
Court of First Instance
Public Prosecution
Litigation Department
People's Law Office
Law Department
Total
No. of Males
No. of
Females
Total