The Israeli Supreme Court (SC) has decided to overturn a law limiting its powers to review government decisions as part of judicial reform. This was reported by Reuters with reference to the press service of the supervisory authority.
Israel’s Supreme Court overturned a controversial law that weakened some of the high court’s powers and sparked protests across the country, according to the agency. It was approved last summer by the Prime Minister of the Jewish State, Benjamin Netanyahu. The updated legislation therefore deprived the Supreme Court of one, if not all, of the tools to overturn the decisions of the government and ministers.
The document stated, “The decision to repeal the law was supported by eight of the 15 judges on the Supreme Court panel.”
Protests against reform lasted more than nine months. The reform involves removing government influence from the judicial system; This, according to the protesters, undermines the foundations of the system of division of power into three branches (legislative, judicial and executive) and leads to the establishment of a dictatorship.
Former Prime Minister of Israel spoke about scandalous judicial reform.