"In the right hands, even a seemingly lost bag can blossom and inspire" (Photo: ShutterStock)
Litigation lawyers sometimes like to liken the courtroom to a boxing ring where the parties grapple in heated arguments until the knockout.
Attorney Doron Raz, who specializes in civil law, prefers to use a slightly different image when he recalls one of his key cases. In that case, Attorney Raz led a Bedouin boy suffering from a slight handicap to a glorious victory over the system and the policemen who beat him.
"It happened several years ago," he recalled.
"I represented a Bedouin student from the north who filed a civil lawsuit for violence within the walls of the school. The student unusually claimed that the ones who beat him were policemen who arrived on the scene. If that wasn't enough, according to the student he was beaten in the principal's room."
"The police asked the student to thank the policemen"
according to Attorney Raz, the student came to him accompanied by his parents with medical documentation of the bruises on his body. "I explained to the parents the difficulties in conducting such a lawsuit against the policemen,
A short time after the meeting, Attorney Raz sent warning letters before filing the lawsuit to the police and the school.
"The principal's reaction was also expected," continues Attorney Raz. "She simply denied the entire incident and did not add anything."
As a result, Attorney Raz filed a lawsuit on behalf of the student against the police and against the school.
In the pleadings submitted afterwards, the police officers and the school continued to deny the incident.
"Immediately at the beginning of the handling of the case, I asked to receive the disciplinary files of the police officers in order to know if they engage in serial violence. After some difficult litigation, I received an extract of their conviction sheets, which did not really help me."
"The director had a pang of conscience, I identified a weak point"
At this point Attorney Raz stops his flow for a moment and explains: "I like to compare the administration of the trial to a bullfight, at the end of which the two swords that kill it are inserted into the back of the unfortunate bull's neck in an elegant movement.
This is how the hearing of the evidence in this case proceeded."
According to him, "first the witnesses were heard on my behalf, and then the story of the student and the testimonies about his injuries were heard", but this was not enough in the absence of proof to attribute the violence to the police officers in view of their vigorous denials and the principal's denial in the various affidavits they signed.
"Actually, the total denial helped," continues Attorney Raz. "The principal's version was that the boy was indeed called to her room due to a rampage, and since this was not the first time he behaved violently, the police were called to the scene.
The principal claimed that during the questioning of the boy by the police, she had to leave her room for a few moments, and did not see any violence," explains Attorney Raz.
"According to her, the police behaved in an exemplary manner, and they themselves testified that there was no violence at the scene, except for the one demonstrated by the student."
The weak point he identified was in the director's words.
"The police officers were experienced in the investigation, and I assumed that the principal had pangs of conscience due to her agreement to leave the room when the police officers were alone with the student. I questioned her length and breadth, and at the same time as her affidavit I invited her to confirm everything that was written in it, line by line," he says.
Towards the end of the investigation, Attorney Raz asked the principal a sly question. "Instead of asking her, 'Did the student tell you he was beaten,' I asked: 'When did the student tell you the first time he was beaten?', and she answered without thinking twice: 'Before he got on the bus.' At that moment, Attorney Raz realized that "the bull has been decided. I immediately understood that this statement would be enough to decide the case. I saw the face of the lawyer who represented the Ministry of Education and the school. He immediately understood the meaning of the answer."
According to Attorney Raz, the judge in the case also understood that everything was over. "The summaries were heard orally, and after a few days the verdict was given in which the police and the school were ordered to pay the student compensation." The police were also ordered to pay punitive costs, and the principal was reprimanded for leaving the student with The police officers without supervision.
"The case was almost hopeless," concludes Attorney Raz, "but the conclusion that emerges from it is that in the right hands,
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