The Egyptian cabinet fully respects the judicial authority and its independence, Alaa al-Hadidi, official spokesman of the cabinet, said on Thursday.

"The independence of the judiciary and the immunity of the judges are two main guarantees for protecting rights and freedoms," al-Hadidi said in a statement published on the cabinet's official Facebook page.

The spokesman stressed the cabinet's belief that "what is achieved by dialogue, understanding and discussion will be much better than the futile recrimination through media".

The cabinet will take part in preparing for a conference for justice that aims at reaching a consensus to achieve the common in

A group of judges had criticised the Shura Council's discussion of a judicial authority law. They threatened to take escalating measures if the law is applied.

The board of directors of Egypt's Judges' Club, headed by Judge Ahmed al-Zend, sent a warning last Sunday to the head of the Shura Council to demand halting discussions of the law.

The board cited the Shura Council's lack of jurisdiction to discuss the law since it is only temporarily in charge of legislative authority within strict limits and according to necessity.

Thousands of Muslim Brotherhood members and the Islamic current took part in last Friday's protests to demand changing the judicial authority law and holding what they called revolutionary trials.