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Title:
Destroying cork trees – forests property – evidence of the office of water and forests report
Party:
Morocco
Region:
Africa
Type of document:
National - higher court
Date of text:
September 29, 2011
Data source:
InforMEA
Court name:
Court of Cassation
Seat of court:
Rabat
Abstract:

When the defendant was convicted for ploughing up in the state’s forest and destroying cork trees, based on the legally written report , made by agents of the office of water and forests according to Article 65 of Dahir 10/10/1917, which could only be contested through the proof of the wrongness of its content. This report established that its writers found a land lot that was ploughed after burning the trunks of cork trees. The court when based its decision on the report and the confession of the defendant during preliminary investigation, it has made its decision well grounded.

Request rejected

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Court of Cassation’s Decisions on the environment