The head of the legislative and advisory body at the justice ministry, Judge Mary Deniz Maoushi, passed away yesterday at the age of sixty after a long illness. Maoushi joined the Judiciary in 1981 and served there for 37 years. She occupied various positions, including an adjunct judge in the ministry, a single judge in Jdeidet al Matn, head of the chamber at Beirut Court of First Degree and head of the chamber at Mount Lebanon Appeal Court before her last post as head of the legislative and advisory body at the ministry of justice which she occupied since 2010. Maoushi was also a member of the Supreme Judicial Council between 2012 and 2015 , and chaired the board of directors of the Cooperative Fund for Judicial Assistants. She was keen to improve the conditions in the judiciary and was a stubborn advocate for the independence of the system. (Al Mustaqbal, july 25 , 2018)