The Prosecutor's Office responded to the Civil Rights Association's protest in response to the Minister of Justice's decision to declare an emergency, as a result of which Netanyahu's trial was rejected • "The decision - with the support of the court administration"

• Justice Minister Amir Ohana // Photo: Oren Ben Hakun

Deputy Justice Raz Nazri responded (Monday) to the Civil Rights Association regarding the use of the Minister of Justice's authority to declare the special emergency in the judicial system and back up the Minister of Justice.

A response letter he wrote to the association stated that this step "was done on the opinion and support of the court administration and with a view to facilitating organization in light of the new guidelines, taking note that this is a request from the court administration, and with a limited and limited exercise of authority, the Attorney General, to which the Minister of Justice addressed Before taking this step, determine that there is no legal impediment to do so. "

As the Nazi Vice-Chancellor points out, emergency regulations do not allow non-urgent hearings in cases where there is an emergency only, but these have recently been amended to allow them to be activated in other emergencies as well. To allow the elimination of non-urgent hearings in the courts and the bureaus of bureaucracy also because of a genuine public health concern is obvious and obvious. "

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At the end of the letter, Nazri says that "these bodies have no authority to order a deferral of hearings in such circumstances .... This maintains the necessary balance between the minister's declaration and the independence of judicial discretion in the conduct of hearings in urgent cases ... We do not believe that his decision was defective Of the Minister of Justice in this regard. "

Attorney General Dan Yakir's Court of Justice, in response to the Vice-President's reply that the Minister of Justice is authorized to disable the justice system in an emergency: This authority harms the independence of the judiciary, basically separating the authorities and human rights, the way of enforcing them is through the right of access Therefore, we intend to petition the High Court against the decision of the Minister of Justice.