Courts, judicial principles, and enforcement

Effect of Waiving a Personal Right for One Accused

A waiver of the personal right for one accused does not extend to the others. The stated exception concerns cases whose initiation depends on the status of a personal-right claimant, under Articles 52 and 53 of the Penal Code.

Selected Maintenance and Personal-Status Entitlements

The supplied summary states: the wife’s maintenance runs from the marriage contract and is calculated from filing; children’s maintenance runs from birth until the customary age, and for a daughter until marriage; education maintenance runs from preschool through the first university stage; custody, child-housing, and nursing fees arise during and after the waiting period of an irrevocable divorce subject to the legal conditions; compensation for arbitrary divorce follows the waiting period within one to three years of maintenance. The full dowry is due after consummation, valid seclusion, or death after consummation; half is due before consummation or valid seclusion.

Attachment of a Vehicle Used to Sell Goods

Under the stated principle, a vehicle subject to attachment does not fall within the “machines and tools necessary for the profession” in Article 29(c) of the Enforcement Law. The exemption concerns craft tools essential to operation and production, not the vehicle in the circumstances described.

Leaving Work Because of a Wage Reduction

Where the employer reduces the worker’s wage, the worker rejects the reduction and leaves, the material treats the situation under Article 29(1)(4) of the Labour Law as unfair dismissal giving rise to compensation and notice pay.

Indecent Assault and Immoral Touching

The distinction lies in the seriousness of the physical act. If it extends to intimate areas that society regards as private and protected, it constitutes indecent assault; if it remains at the level of touching without contact with such areas, it is an immoral act according to the stated principle.

Compensation for a Deceased Person’s Siblings After a Traffic Accident

The stated principle reads Article 267(2) of the Civil Code as covering spouses and close family members without limiting the class to heirs. Siblings are members of the deceased’s family under Article 34 and may therefore fall within Article 267(2) and claim damages as described.

Territorial Jurisdiction in Cybercrime Cases

The stated jurisprudence recognizes jurisdiction for the court that first assumed the case or the court of the defendant’s residence. Neither forum has priority except by the earlier filing date, and the offence is treated as committed throughout the territory of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

A Lawyer's Authority after the Original Lawyer Is Struck Off: Agency and Substitution under General Assembly Decision 481/2023

تمييز حقوق هيئة عامة رقم (481/2023)، بتاريخ 2023-04-05.

This summary analyses the effect of striking the original lawyer from the practising register on the power of attorney, substitution, and later procedural steps.

Criminal Judgments and Evidentiary Assessment on Cassation: General Assembly Decision 2690/2023

تمييز جزاء هيئة عامة رقم (2690/2023)، بتاريخ 2023-11-28.

A summary of a criminal decision addressing cassation review of evidentiary assessment and requiring findings to rest on evidence in the record and be rationally and legally reasoned.

The Decisive Oath and Proof of Payment: Procedural Direction in General Assembly Decision 2201/2022

تمييز حقوق هيئة عامة رقم (2201/2022)، بتاريخ 2022-11-06.

This summary explains the burden of proving payment in an objection-to-claim action and when an appellate court must inform a claimant of the right to direct a decisive oath on payment alone.

Assessment of Claim Value and Compensation for Land Value Loss from Electrical Installations

For admitting a cassation appeal the controlling measure is the claim value at filing, considering parties' demands; compensation for loss of land value from electrical works is confined to the affected area as defined by safety-distance rules.

Appellate Court's Insistence on Prior Decision and the Option to Follow Cassation

A brief summary explaining that Article 202 of the Civil Procedure Law allows an appellate court to accept cassation or insist on its prior ruling, depending on whether the cassation raises a question of law or concerns the weighing of evidence.