First publication: A senior official in the Haifa District Attorney’s Office submitted this morning (Sunday) a request for a temporary order to the Labor Court ordering the State Commission and the Ministry of Justice to allow him to participate in demonstrations against the legal reform.
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According to the request, submitted by attorney Ila Honigman, the senior attorney should be allowed to demonstrate: “The exceptional and extreme circumstances we are in, of the far-reaching changes the plan is trying to make in the judicial system, are those that require an interpretation that reduces the limitations on the right of civil servants to demonstrate and protest in general It is jurists and lawyers in particular, a right that is a direct derivative of freedom of expression.”
The request also states that “beyond the fact that the demonstrations against the legislative program are apolitical, cross-sector and party, we are dealing with aspects and issues that have direct consequences for the applicant. The personal and unique circumstances of the applicant, a father and a homosexual, which the implementation of the reform has already brought him to consider in a serious and real way Leaving the country, all of these oblige to avoid harming the possibility or to exercise his right as a citizen and a person and to demonstrate in relation to the plan.”
Attorney Ila Honigman (Photo: Dor Manuel)
In the application, Adv. Honigman explains the personal situation of the senior attorney: “Soon after the beginning of the government’s moves to promote changes in the judicial system, the applicant’s son informed the applicant and his wife that, should the reform be implemented as planned, he intended to leave the country together with his partner, due to the fear to the violation of the rights of the LGBT community”.
After that, the senior attorney made requests to participate in the demonstrations, but received a negative answer. After another appeal remained unanswered, the request was submitted for an injunction that would allow the official to go out and demonstrate against the reform of the judicial system.