We were surprised by constitutional assembly actions

Egyptian Chancellor Mohamed Taha Cairo – Marwa Al Baz The Head of the State Litigation Judges' Club in Egypt Chancellor Mohamed Taha confirmed that the role of the State Litigation Judges authority is limited on defending the state in cases raised for and against it. Taha mentioned in his interview with Arabstoday that they demand to state their right in the constitution by changing the authority to a civil prosecution. This is not a personal demand but in order to facilitate working on the crowded number of civil cases in Egypt since years ago and will allow the authority members to have same salaries and privileges of judiciary authority members. Taha mentioned the role of the State Litigation Judges authority since its foundation during holding the Egyptian judiciary first conference 1986, emerging the idea of unified judiciary in order to solve the problem of slow measures and procedures and getting benefits from the authority chancellors seeking to achieve the concept of "Fair Rapid Judiciary", as it was recommended by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 1966 but it didn’t achieve till now". He mentioned that after January 25 Revolution, a merging of the State Litigation Judges authority and the administrative prosecution to a normal and administrative judiciary was called for but the parliament was dissolved before issuing the law after the high Supreme Court verdict. Taha said that: "The January 25 Revolution came to let us get rid off seizing point of views and controlling of the ruling power in everything. But the opposite is happening through the Chancellor Hossam El Gheriany inside the constitutional assembly." He added: "The Chancellor Gheriany and I are taking contradicting actions as there is a big difference between his former and recent situations. He prevously called for reforming the judiciary system, overcoming the slow judiciary measures, supporting the amendment law of the judiciary power, which was set by the judiciary club, resulting in listing these demands among the recommendations of the Judiciary first conference 1896. The new draft law prepared by Chancellor Ahmed Meky, the recent Justice minister on the lawyers crisis supporter by Chancellor Gheriany after leading the supreme judiciary council, so it's very strange that the same person who called for all these things in 1986 and 2011, is against it in 2012, as I believe that all these related to some personal reasons." Taha also called for dismissing Gheriany from the constitutional assembly after he was employed as the head of the Egyptian human rights council. This is because it is not allowed according to the constitutional announcement on 30 March 2011 and a member in the assembly cannot take an executive position, which will make him losing neutrality. Finally he said: "The constitutional committee has to abide by the constitutional assembly regulations, working on drafting laws without affecting its core content, committing to drafting all constitutional rights for judiciary authorities without any kind of discrimination for any reason, seeking to see our new Egyptian constitution representing all Egyptians, achieving a real development."