In the last few years, supreme court chief justices established an ad hoc committee to filter candidates who wish to advance from magistrates courts to district courts.
The committee, comprising two men or women close to the Chief Justice worked for years without public knowledge and after it became known, the Movement for Governance and Democracy requested to reveal the protocols of the committee. The Chief Justice refused and the movement petitioned the courts over the issue.
In a ruling Thursday, Judge Arnon Darel rejected the demand for transparency and claimed that the Law of Freedom of Information does not require revealing the work of the committee.