The year 1963 bears witness to the dawn of the Kuwaiti Lawyers Association, the legal entity concerned with those working in the established judiciary.

On the sixtieth anniversary of its announcement, which falls today, the association’s work is highlighted, which revolved around organizing the practice of the legal profession and ensuring its good performance, arranging the affairs of its employees, caring for their interests, and defending their rights.

The association’s president, lawyer Sherian Al-Sharyan, told KUNA yesterday that the association is proud of the presence of an elite group of Kuwaiti lawyers, who have served on its board of directors over these years, influenced the field of the profession, and pushed for the approval of several fundamental amendments to the law regulating the legal profession, and looks forward to The Assembly seeks to approve and establish a more advanced acceptance mechanism for its practice.

Al-Sharyan added that the Lawyers Association, as an entity, is proud of the presence of legislator members in the National Assembly in Kuwait who belong to the ancient legal profession, some of whom have previously held administrative positions on the Association’s Board of Directors.

For his part, the Vice President of the Association, Lawyer Adnan Abel, pointed out that the Association possesses the largest legal library at the level of bar associations in the world, and an office archive and electronic digitization containing more than 120 thousand books, references and legal rulings that can be browsed and inferred according to a very advanced global system, which is a reason for this. For pride, especially since it is accessible to all lawyers and also available to the people of Kuwait.

Apple pointed out that several government agencies are moving to open representative offices in the association’s main building, such as the Legalization Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a Civil Information Office, and the Office of the Lawyer Center for Litigation Services, affiliated with the Ministry of Justice, as well as the Office of the Ministry of Trade and Industry, and the Citizen Service Center of the Ministry of Interior. All of them serve lawyers and citizens.

In turn, the Vice President of the Lawyers Association for International Relations Affairs, Lawyer Abdul Rahman Al-Tahous, stated that through the Litigation Center of the Ministry of Justice in the Association, all procedures that take place in a regular court will be completely completed, from filing a lawsuit, opening the execution file, making a power of attorney, opposing misdemeanors, conducting cassation and appeals, and inquiring about cases.