Supreme Constitutional Court appoints Tarek Shibl as deputy justice

MOVES- The Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) approved yesterday appointing Tarek Shibl as one of the court’s deputy justices, succeeding Hamdan Fahmy, Al Mal reports. Shibl was previously the president of the court’s Commissioners Authority. This comes as President Abdel Fattah El Sisi signed into law yesterday a decree promoting 24 judges at the Court of Cassation to become deputies to the Chief Justice, Al Shorouk reports. The decision will also see a shuffle of Appellate Court heads and the promotion of some judges from the Appellate Court to become judges at the Court of Cassation. The decree was published in the Official Gazette.