Animals: Introducing the rule of law as "the rule of law" - a big mistake

The President of the Supreme Court addressed a conference in Haifa, referring to the recent attacks on the judicial system. "Underlying the rule of law is the rule that everyone is subject to the law: one law for the citizen and the sovereign." Animals added that the system is not free of mistakes "but a brash criticism of its legitimacy" Is not acceptable

Animals: Introducing the rule of law as "the rule of law" - a big mistake

Supreme Court President Esther Hayes said during a speech at the Haifa Public Law Association's annual conference on Thursday that the topic of the conference - "How to Protect Public Law and its Institutions," indicates its organizers' concern over the trial The public and the legal institutions of the State of Israel, she said.

Commenting on recent criticisms of the judicial system, she said that "putting this question in the center of the conference indicates the concerns of its organizers of the attacks on the values ​​of public law and the legal institutions of the State of Israel. Unfortunately, recent events and statements indicate that this is not a fundamental issue." She further went on to say that "the protected values ​​of public law are a complex and multifaceted question. But one does not dispute that one of the most important basic principles of law in general, and of public law in particular, is the principle of rule of law." The President said that under the rule of law "the rule is that everyone is subject to the law - one law for a citizen and one law for the sovereign."

"For the citizen to know that he can rely on what the law is commanded," the president said. "He must know that the government authorities are also subject to the law, because if it is not, any authority can change its mind at any given moment about the law and even act not through the law."

Animals said that citizens have recently been increasing "voices seeking to present the principle of rule of law as 'the rule of law' and as a stumbling block that stands in the way of what are termed by the same 'authorities'." To which animals said: "There is no greater error than this."

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President of the Supreme Court, Esther Hayes during a trial conference at the Dan Carmel Hotel, Haifa, December 5, 2019 (Photo: Shlomi Gabay)

The president continued, "When the citizen who believes in the legal systems is undermined, the possibility of protecting the rights of individuals in society is undermined, and the social order is undermined and the individual's sense of security is impaired. As far as flesh and blood is concerned, no control and supervision mechanisms are required of each of our servants. The public I mentioned, but between such mechanisms and the restraining criticism that undermines the legitimacy of legal institutions in the State of Israel, imposing personal, irresponsible and irresponsible in these public servants, the distance. "