Helen Suzman Foundation v Judicial Service Commission “In sum, I can think of no reason why deliberations as a class of information ought generally to be excluded from a rule 53 record. For me, the question is whether...
Read MoreA judge, who has been on special leave on full pay since 15 January 2007, applied to the high court for an order to have ss 8-10, 14-23 and 25-33 of the JSC Act declared inconsistent with ss 177 and 178 of the Constitution....
Read MoreA full bench of the High Court in Gauteng refused late last week to grant the application brought by two justices of the Constitutional Court. In summary these are the main findings: The implementation or enforcement of new...
Read MoreIf the JSC is bypassed and replaced by judges themselves it could imply a scenario in which judges are seen to perpetuate their views and interpretations of the law, and the Constitution itself. Stephen Grootes, the host of the...
Read MoreAdvocate Jeremy Gauntlett SC has now been overlooked for the fourth time for appointment to the High Court purportedly because of his ‘temperament, in particular his alleged lack of humility and tendency to be acerbic’. It is...
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