Makor Rishon: The House of Influence intervened in the elections to the Bar Association

The court intervened in the elections to the Bar Association
Following a request to the court, the Elections Committee for the Year of the Judiciary canceled a decision that would have helped one of the contenders for the job
Uri Israel Paz
The election committee of the Israel Bar Association tried to gain an illegal advantage for contestant attorney Yuri Guy-Ron, retracted it following a petition filed with the court.
Attorney Doron Barzilai and Effi Naveh of the "Atid" party filed a motion to grant an order nisi against Shlomi Turgeman, Doron Afik and Tal Deutsch, against the intention of the Central Elections Committee of the Israel Bar Association to hold a discussion on the methods of holding election propaganda in the Chamber
And to make a decision on the matter by means of a telephone survey whose purpose is to approve a change in the election propaganda laws of the Bar, so as to harm the petitioners and give an advantage to the chairman of the Bar, Yuri Guy-Ron.
According to the petitioners, the Elections Committee does not have the authority to hold a hearing on the matter since the matter is fixed in the rules of the Bar Association "and the amendment of the rules requires a procedure that will be approved by the Minister of Justice." The lawyers "Afik Turgeman" note that the committee does not have the authority to conduct a telephone survey in lieu of a meeting of the committee members. In the survey, the committee members are only allowed to choose between two options that were determined in advance without the ability to hold a substantive discussion, .
Judge Ilan Shilo gave the bureau three hours to respond and in response the Bar Association's Bar Association's investigative committee announced that it had withdrawn and canceled the planned vote.
Barzilai notes that, as far as the attorney's office has known for decades, the use of telephone surveys has never been used, and this is a dangerous precedent. "It is not by chance that a member of the Elections Committee is appointed as a substitute - in order to allow urgent meetings to be held within a short period of three months prior to the elections in which the Elections Committee is held by law. Had the legislator intended to allow a telephone survey, he would not have required the appointment of a substitute for every member of the Elections Committee. "
According to the Petitioners, this is a strange step in view of the decision of the Acting Chairman of the Committee not to hold a meeting of the Committee prior to Passover at the Petitioners' request. It is also noted that a discussion will be held anyway, on 5.5.11, in which a discussion on election propaganda was also held. In addition, it was claimed that in effect the acting chairwoman of the Elections Committee had already made the decision (without authority) on behalf of the members of the harassment committee, without any discussion or vote, and is now only interested in conducting a telephone survey between the two alternatives
Which chose to deny legislative rights without a corrective procedure.
"This is a strange move and we feel that the interests here are very clear. To prevent one of the contestants from conducting legal election campaigns, while another candidate, who is also chairman of the Bar, will be able to continue freely in election propaganda without being called election propaganda, but as a "jubilee" as part of his activity as head of the Bar Association. It is inconceivable that the Elections Committee will take the law so blatantly and ignore the procedures. We demand that the committee act according to the law, not in the dark. "