High Court to Hear Justice Minister's Authority to Appoint Overseer of Criminal Investigation in Expanded Panel

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An expanded panel of 11 High Court justices will consider whether the justice minister may appoint an outside official to oversee a criminal investigation when the attorney general is barred from handling it. The hearing arose from the ruling in the case of the former prosecutor.

The Prosecution Service filed a request for a further hearing and argued that politicians viewed the investigation as a means of removing the attorney general. The investigation of Tomer-Yerushalmi has already ended.

The ruling will address the principled question of whether a political figure may appoint the person responsible for a criminal investigation. The hearing does not concern the identity of the overseer in the specific case, but rather the setting of rules for the future.