KUWAIT: Attorney General Saad Al-Safran announced Thursday the issuance of a decision to establish a criminal appeals prosecution office as one of the specialized pillars supporting the criminal justice system, aimed at enhancing the quality of judicial work and consolidating the highest standards of legal oversight over criminal rulings.
In a press statement, Counselor Al-Safran said the new prosecution office, which will report directly to the Office of the Attorney General, comes within the framework of a modern vision to develop criminal appeal mechanisms within the Public Prosecution. It seeks to elevate the level of reviewing and studying judgments and to unify the technical approach in drafting appeal memoranda in a manner that strengthens the stability of judicial principles and reinforces the guarantees of justice and the rule of law.
He added Advocate General Abdulaziz Al-Ghaith, one of the prominent judicial leaders with extensive and deep practical experience in judicial work, has been appointed to head the new office. He noted that this appointment reflects confidence in national competencies capable of managing precise legal files and providing the high-level technical administration that requires cumulative experience and analytical depth in assessing trends in criminal jurisprudence.
Al-Safran explained that the new office will undertake specialized responsibilities that constitute a fundamental pillar in supporting the quality of judicial appeals. These include studying and analyzing judgments issued by criminal courts at all levels, preparing appeal memoranda in accordance with the highest technical standards, monitoring developments in modern judicial principles, implementing specialized training programs for members of the public prosecution, and preparing statistical and analytical reports to be submitted to the public prosecutor to enhance performance standards.
He further stated that the new prosecution office will include two specialized units. The first is the procedural acquittals review unit, which will analyze acquittals issued on procedural grounds through a precise procedural lens, identify potential shortcomings in procedures, extract technical lessons, and submit recommendations that contribute to improving the quality of future procedural work. This is aimed at enhancing investigative efficiency while preserving the legal guarantees of litigants.
The second unit will be responsible for pleading before criminal circuits, focusing on monitoring cases of significant legal importance that require oral pleadings, preparing legal arguments, supervising the training of public prosecution members for courtroom advocacy and documenting and archiving distinguished pleadings as technical reference models for prosecutors.
Al-Safran also announced the establishment of a specialized digital technical library in which all appeal memoranda and distinguished pleadings will be preserved. This library will serve as an advanced knowledge platform to support legal research and develop drafting and advocacy skills among members of the public prosecution, representing a step that supports cognitive digital transformation within the prosecution.
He emphasized that the establishment of the criminal appeals prosecution marks a pivotal developmental milestone in modernizing the technical work of the public prosecution. It embodies the direction toward building a criminal appeals system aligned with modern judicial developments and contributes to strengthening legal oversight of criminal procedures in order to safeguard individual rights and enhance public confidence in the fairness and integrity of the judicial system. – KUNA
