A three-judge panel of the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Supreme Rabbinical Court is not entitled to hear an appeal filed by a person who is not a party to a hearing on the ruling of the Rabbinical Court in Tzfat which freed an agunah (woman "anchored down" for lack of a divorce) via "get zikui" writ of divorce.
The justices ruled that the decision of the President of the Rabbinical Court of Appeal, Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef to hear the case was not within his authority and therefore should be annulled.