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Thursday, July 13, 2023
AG’s representative says new ‘reasonableness’ bill more extreme
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA representative for Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara says the new version of the “reasonableness” bill presented to the Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee is a more extreme version of the previous one.
“Any unreasonable decision by the cabinet and ministers will be immune to judicial oversight,” attorney Abital Sternberg tells the committee. “We are talking about the most important and sensitive decisions relating to people’s lives.”
The original bill draft, approved by the Knesset in its first reading on Tuesday, barred courts from invalidating or even discussing government and ministers’ decisions based on their “reasonableness,” an established judicial test. The new text explicitly states that the court cannot touch decisions dealing with appointments or the decision to refrain from exercising authority, such as not convening committees.
The Times of Israel Community.