The overcoming clause and the change of the committee for the selection of judges: Levin's reform of the judicial system (Walla system!)
The Association of Jurists and the Attorneys' Organization threatened today (Tuesday) with a strike and declaration of a labor dispute, following the promotion of the reform to weaken the justice system that Justice Minister Yariv Levin wants to pass.
"Our personal, professional and occupational future, our place of work and its very existence, its essence and status are at stake," reads the statement of the Association of Jurists.
According to the letter sent on behalf of the union, the reason for taking the organizational measures is the government's intention to change the status and way of selecting the legal advisors in the government offices unilaterally and without consultation.
"According to the developments in the near future with the state, it will be decided if we are already required to actually declare the labor dispute and prepare to take organizational measures," warned union chairman Yitzhak Gordon.
The attorneys' organization clarified that "the government's measures will certainly and seriously damage the working and service conditions of the state attorneys, their job security and collective relations with the state."
The chairman of the attorneys' organization, Orit Korin, said: "The entirety of the legislative measures will lead to the waiver of the legal representation of the state by the attorney's office, to a serious injury to the representation of the state that will become an outsourcing of the state's position in the courts and in all the courts."
They are threatening a strike following his reform.
Levin (Photo: Maariv, Avshalom Sashoni)
Yesterday, opposition leader Yair Lapid announced that he proposed to President Yitzhak Herzog to establish a presidential committee, which will formulate an alternative to the reform to weaken the judicial system that Justice Minister Yariv Levin is seeking to pass. According to him, Herzog is examining the proposal. , and to regulate the relationship between the judiciary and the legislature," said Lapid at his faction's meeting. In the meantime, Levin met with Supreme Court President Ester Hayut to discuss the reform.
The president confirmed the words. "As part of talks the president of the country has been holding in recent weeks with the aim of preventing a historic constitutional crisis And to stop the further division in the nation, the president also spoke with the chairman of the opposition," Herzog said.
"The President of the State continues his unceasing efforts with all the relevant parties, with the aim of creating a wide-ranging, attentive and respectful dialogue and discourse, in the hope of reaching as broad an understanding as possible."
About three weeks ago, Minister of Justice Yariv Levin presented the reform he wants to pass in the judicial system.
The steps he wants to take: changing the representatives in the committee for selecting judges, passing the superseding clause, canceling the "probability cause" and changing the attitude towards the legal advisors.
He asked to formulate an alternative to the reform.
Lapid (Photo: Flash 90, Olivier Fitoussi)
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First, Levin seeks to change the method for electing judges, by removing the two representatives of the Bar Association from the committee and replacing them with Knesset members.
"No longer a situation where the judges choose themselves in chambers without a protocol, but equal representation for the three government authorities in the committee for selecting judges," argued the Minister of Justice.
Levin explained that he is interested in regulating the disqualification of the laws and the superseding clause.
According to him, the superseding clause will be enacted, according to which with a majority of 61 members, the Knesset will be able to annul a law invalidated by the court.
"It will be possible to disqualify laws in the Supreme Court, with a full composition and a special majority," said Levin, explaining that in order to disqualify a law, the unanimous consent of the judges discussing it will be required.
In addition, the Minister of Justice wants to cancel the "reasonableness ground" - the same ground for which Legal Adviser to the Government Gali Beharev Miara wants to disqualify Shas chairman Aryeh Deri as minister.
"No more invalidating completely legal decisions of an elected government under the excuse of implausibility in the eyes of the judge, instead returning the ability to make decisions to the elected government," stated the minister.
Finally, Levin wants to change the policy towards the legal advisors, and to cancel the statement that their position requires the political echelon to act on it.
"No more subordination of the government to an unelected level. The legal advisors, as they are called, are 'advisors' and not 'deciders,'" said the Minister of Justice.
"When they represent the government, they should represent the government, not their private opinion."
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