Shurat Hadin-The Israel Law Center on Tuesday filed a petition with the High Court of Justice against Justice Minister Tzipi Livni to compel her to cooperate with providing information relating to a US terror financing court case against the Bank of China.
The NGO said it had filed the petition after Livni's "failure to respond to a request for information issued by the New York District Court under the Hague Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters."The Hague Convention is one of a series of international conventions which regulates and sometimes requires cooperation between states in providing relevant evidence in foreign court cases that happens to be held in a different state.The information requested pertains to the case brought in the US courts by Shurat Hadin against the bank on behalf of 22 victims of terrorism.
