Saeid Bigdeli; Abuzar Sahranavard
Volume 1, Issue 3 , March 2013, , Pages 95-123
Abstract
Under Iran’s legal system incompetents are protected through variouschannels namely in part by nullyfiying or ruling ineffective the legal actionstaken by the same. Further, to gurantee and safeguard their interests,particular agents are to be delegated to administer on their behalf their legalaffairs. ...
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Under Iran’s legal system incompetents are protected through variouschannels namely in part by nullyfiying or ruling ineffective the legal actionstaken by the same. Further, to gurantee and safeguard their interests,particular agents are to be delegated to administer on their behalf their legalaffairs. Thus, Iran’s law has provided for certain establishments as to servethe purpose including custodianship, administration [of will] andguardianship. Save the above, to guarantee the interest of incompetents arefurther protected, the law has designated the Prosecuting Attorney with theduty to oversee the actions taken by the above three delegates, as the casemay be, taking necessary measures where required. The founding of nonejudicial protective service organizations such as State Welfare Organization[Sazman Behzisti], Protective Service Committee [Komite Emdad] andMartyre Foundation [Bonyad Shahid] has led to most of the protective dutiesoriginally entrusted with the Prosecuting Attorney be practically carried outby the said organizations, thereby giving rise to the need addressed by thisarticle to study and discuss the interference of such duties and the conflictbetween their functionality