Some MPs objected on the speed of discussing the bill and passing it, without informing the judicial authorities of the details of the amendments introduced by the parliamentary committee. "It is clear that all the [judicial] bodies rejected the draft law. Is it conceivable then, that the council (House of Representative) would go ahead and enact such a draft law and ignore the opinion of those judicial authorities? Judicial sources said the meeting would discuss a number of escalatory steps to reject the amendments as a blatant assault on the independence of the judiciary. The club stressed that the law on the judicial authority "is in clear and urgent need for the amendment to comply, in most of its articles, with the provisions of the new constitution."

Source: Egypt Independent March 28, 2017 15:45 UTC