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As the first draft laws making up the new Israeli government’s judicial reform start passing preliminary votes in the Knesset, Israel moves toward a constitutional showdown, in which the Supreme Court might have to strike down new laws that seek to remove its power to strike down unconstitutional legislation.
Under current Israeli administrative law, the Supreme Court may strike down patently unreasonable decisions of the executive branch that run contrary to human rights or good governance. The new government’s legal reforms seek to eliminate this legal doctrine or exclude from it elected officials
Government legal advisers play an important role in upholding the rule of law in Israel. Planned legal reforms, however, seek to allow the government to ignore their legal opinions and replace senior advisers with political appointees.
Part three in a series examining the sweeping legal and judicial reforms proposed by Israel's new government.
How did the Israeli Supreme Court use its authority after the constitutional revolution of the 1990s and what do current proposals to limit the power of the court to exercise judicial review over Knesset legislation look like?
With the swearing in of Israel’s new government, Israel’s legal system is facing proposals for sweeping reform that would change fundamental aspects of the courts’ ability to check and balance the Knesset’s legislative powers.
Israel’s Supreme Court published the reasons for its judgment on the legality of the Israel-Lebanon Maritime Delimitation Agreement.
A new Israeli Supreme Court judgment applies a 2012 amendment to civil tort immunity legislation to effectively block tort claims arising from incidents in Gaza.
The judgment marks a regressive trend in which HCJ justices uncritically apply old rulings on international law doctrines to belligerent occupation situations.
The Adalah ruling highlights an unresolved tension between widely held goals for restricting online content and the constitutionally permissible means available to achieve them.