Again, the Exclusion of a Lawyer from Assuming the Post of Magistrate Court Judge despite Having Successfully Passed all the Requirements of the Judicial Competition; Solely for Being a Woman   Your Excellency the President of the High Judicial Council in Gaza and the honorable members of the Council,   Subject: The exclusion of lawyer Maram Maher Shatat/Gaza from assuming the post of Magistrate Court Judge, for being a woman &nbs...

His Excellency Chief Justice in Gaza and the respected members of the High Judicial Council,   Subject: A court decides twenty shekels for attorney’s fees     The Palestinian Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession-Musawa, expresses its greetings, and begins with stressing on its adherence to the principle of the independence of judges and the independence of the judiciary, and that judges are independent in their judicial work and...

A position paper on the cancellation of civil lawsuits and the conduct of criminal trial procedures during the suspension of work announced by Bar Association    Following the publication of a bundle of decree-laws amending the judicial legislations on March 6th, and after the Bar Association examined what was published, it issued a statement considering that these decree-laws came in the context of misunderstanding of the development of the judiciary, and their enforcement would undermine justice and push for the total collaps...