Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - A joint session held on Wednesday for both chambers of Parliament returned the draft judiciary independence law to the government, after the Senate and the Lower House failed to resolve a dispute over articles of the law.

The majority of 150 lawmakers present, including both senators and deputies, voted in favor of returning the law to the government, a move that went in favor of the Lower House's recommendation after the Senate previously rejected a motion to return it to the government.

The Senate's legal committee last week rejected the deputies changes to the bill, claiming that it will not benefit any side in the legal system.

Previously, 93 out of 110 deputies in the Lower House had rejected the Senate's amendments to the draft law, and requested that the government submit a new version of the law to ensure that it meets the expectations of judicial authority leaders and professionals.

The deputies attributed their decision to the fact that they want the government to submit a draft law which ensures the judiciary’s full independence from the minister of justice.

On Wednesday, Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour said that the amendments to the draft law submitted by the government to parliament came to be in line with the spirit of constitutional amendments endorsed in 2011, which stipulated full independence of the judiciary branch.

MP Wafa Bani Mustafa had accused the government of scrapping some articles proposed by the judiciary authorities within the judiciary independence bill.