By DAN IZENBERG The High Court of Justice on Sunday blasted the Education Ministry for allegedly ignoring a ruling it handed down four years ago ordering it either to introduce the teaching of a core curriculum in haredi schools financed by the state or to stop financing them.

By DAN IZENBERG The High Court of Justice on Tuesday gave the state 30 days to respond to its proposal that the transportation minister establish a forum to examine the operation of bus lines in which men and women sit separately.

By Dave Black A landmark court hearing sparked by the closure of the region's last deep pit has been delayed for several months after the mineworkers' union objected to the judge appointed to deal with it.

Text of report by Amir Buhbut entitled "High Court endangering soldiers" published on Israeli NRG Ma'ariv website on 6 October; subheading as published "The High Court of Justice [HCJ] ruling is going to endanger IDF [Israel Defence Forces] soldiers operating in Judaea and Samaria [West Bank]," a senior officer of the Judaea and Samaria Division said today, following the HCJ's ruling to ban the use of the neighbour procedure [using Palestinian civilians as human shield in operations to arrest suspected Palestinian militants] while carrying out arrests in the territories.

OTTAWA (CP) - Some of Canada's top judges are being schooled in the art of espionage. Faced with a steady stream of complex security cases, select members of the Federal Court of Canada will receive lessons on topics ranging from the latest means of eavesdropping to current views on civil liberties.