Mohamed Morsi, Egyptian president, will meet senior judges on Monday to try to ease a crisis over his new powers which has set off protests reminiscent of last year's revolution which brought him to power.
Activists on Sunday were camped in Cairo's Tahrir Square for a third day, blocking traffic with makeshift barricades to protest against what they said was a power-grab by Morsi. Nearby, riot police and protesters clashed intermittently.
One Muslim Brotherhood member was killed and 60 people were injured late on Sunday in an attack on the main office of the Brotherhood in the Egyptian Nile Delta town of Damanhour, the website of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party said.
More than 500 people have been injured in clashes between police and protesters worried Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood is trying to consolidate power.
The country's highest judicial authority hinted at compromise to avert a further escalation, though Morsi's opponents want nothing less than the complete cancellation of a decree they see as a danger to democracy.
The Supreme Judicial Council said Morsi's decree should apply only to "sovereign matters", suggesting it did not reject the declaration outright, and called on judges and prosecutors, some of whom began a strike on Sunday, to return to work.
Morsi will meet the council on Monday, state media said.
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