The Impact of a Public Servant’s Escape from Justice in Jordanian Legislation: A Comparative Study

Abstract

The research dealt with the effects of the public employee's escape from justice in the Jordanian and comparative legislation (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) in three sections. The first section dealt with the nature of escape from justice. The second dealt with forms of the public servant's escape from justice. The third dealt with the implications of the decision to consider the public servant a fugitive from justice. The problem of the study emerged by discussing the case in which the employee is accused of committing a felony-type crime and escaping from justice at any stage of the investigation or judgment of the crime. It also dealt with the effect of the issuance of the decision to suspend the public servant from work until the court decided the accusation against him/her, and the effect of the acquittal or conviction of the public servant of the charges against him/her. The study reached a set of results, the most important of which is the failure to codify most of the comparative legislation for this situation in the legislation regulating the public service. The researcher made several recommendations, the most important of which was that the Saudi regulator organize the case of the trial of the accused fugitive from justice in the Saudi system of criminal procedures and organize this case in the legislation regulating public service, whether in the Kingdom or in the countries of comparative law.