Head of the Judiciary: At various stages of judicial proceedings, we must listen to the public’s complaints and strive to resolve them

According to the Judiciary’s Media Center, Mohseni Eje'i, during his 45th provincial trip since taking office as head of the judiciary, arrived in Ilam this morning (Tuesday, October 21) in an unofficial visit accompanied by the High Judicial Delegation.

The head of the judiciary and other senior judicial officials will hold programs in Ilam aimed at addressing the legal and judicial issues facing the people of the province.

Meeting with judges, various segments of the public, and elites, as well as following up on the implementation of decisions from the previous High Judicial Delegation visit to Ilam, are among the head of the judiciary’s planned activities in the province.

It is worth noting that since assuming the office of Head of the Judiciary on 10 Tir 1400, Mohseni Eje'i has officially traveled, at the head of the High Judicial Delegation, to the provinces of Ilam, Qazvin, Khuzestan, Golestan, Razavi Khorasan, Sistan and Baluchestan, Qom, Yazd, South Khorasan, Zanjan, Markazi, Isfahan, Alborz, Kurdistan, East Azerbaijan, Kerman, Ardabil, Bushehr, Hormozgan, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Semnan, Tehran, Kermanshah, Gilan, Lorestan, West Azerbaijan, Hamedan, and Mazandaran.

In addition to official provincial visits undertaken with the High Judicial Delegation, the current head of the judiciary has also included informal, low-profile visits in his schedule; recently he has visited Alborz, Isfahan, Hormozgan, Bushehr, Kerman, Razavi Khorasan (twice), North Khorasan (twice), Mazandaran, Fars, Golestan (twice), and Khuzestan informally and without ceremony to examine judicial matters in those regions.

During his visit to Ilam, Mohseni Eje'i attended a gathering of judges and staff of the province’s judiciary and, in remarks emphasizing the need for special attention to addressing the people’s issues and problems, said: “The people are a strong and firm bulwark against our enemies; today the best form of worship is service to these people. We must seize the opportunity to serve the public; the hardships and difficulties encountered in the course of our work should not prevent us from selfless service to the people.”

The Head of the Judiciary stated: “People do not have excessive expectations of us; they expect that when their affairs bring them before the judiciary we will treat them with good and kind conduct, process their cases as quickly as possible, and act justly and in accordance with the law in handling their matters.”

He added that justice must be manifested in the best and most complete manner in all our behaviors and affairs. “If we receive a report and delay referring it, and as a result of this delay a right is violated, we must recognize that we are indebted and bear responsibility. If our conduct prevents a complainant or defendant from presenting their claims and defenses, we must acknowledge that we are certainly at fault.”

The Chief Justice stated that if indictments issued by our prosecutor’s offices are repeatedly overturned in our courts or repeatedly lead to acquittals, a precise and comprehensive fault analysis must be carried out to identify the defects in the work.

He emphasized: “At various stages of judicial proceedings there are complaints from the public; we must be listeners to these complaints and do our utmost to address them.”