Adel Abdel-Hamid (born 1939) was the

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in the

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. He was appointed and took oath of office before acting President

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on 21 July 2013.Profile: Egypt's new justice minister Adel Abdel-Hamid
''China'', 22 July 2013

Biography

Adel Abdel-Hamid was born in 1939. He graduated from

Cairo University Cairo University ( ar, جامعة القاهرة, Jāmi‘a al-Qāhira), also known as the Egyptian University from 1908 to 1940, and King Fuad I University and Fu'ād al-Awwal University from 1940 to 1952, is Egypt's premier public university ...

's law faculty in 1960. He worked in prosecution until appointed a judge at

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Court of First Instance in July 1973. In March 1984 he was appointed a counselor at the

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. In June 1989 he was appointed deputy chief of the Court of Cassation. In July 2009 he was appointed head of the Court of Cassation and chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council. In December 2011 Abdel-Hamid was appointed Minister of Justice in the interim cabinet of

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.Zeinab El Gundy
Finally, El-Ganzouri cabinet sworn in
''Ahram Online'', 7 December 2011. On 2 August 2012 he was replaced as Justice Minister by Ahmed Mekki in the

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