Oversight of the Jordanian Court of Cassation on the reasons for the appealed judgment

Abstract

This research focused on the issue of the Court of Cassation’s oversight of the reasons for the contested judgment according to the analysis of the texts of the Jordanian Code of Criminal Procedure No. 32 of (2017) and the Jordanian Penal Code No. 7 of (2018), where the Jordanian legislator set penalties ranging from Lower and higher, leaving the criminal judge discretionary in that in a manner commensurate with the personality of the offender and his health, mental, and social conditions.

Although the legislator gives the judge the authority to assess the penalty, there must be judicial oversight that prevents the judge from ruling according to his whims and desires, or deviating from the application of justice, which is the endeavor of the judiciary and societies