The Judicial Service Commission interviewed over 50 judicial candidates in 2019 and while all the JSC interviews are interesting, there are always a few which stand out and capture people’s attention. Here are some of the most popular JSC interviews from 2019: Mr Daniel Mafeleu Thulare The issues around judicial governance hit the JSC […]
The Judicial Conduct Tribunal for Western Cape Judge President John Mandlakayise Hlophe is scheduled to resume on Monday, 21 October 2019, in Johannesburg. At the last meeting of the Tribunal on 2 July 2018, Judge Musi recused himself, and the Tribunal was postponed indefinitely. Judges Matter was informed of the new date for the Tribunal […]
Last week Paul Hoffman SC, the Director and Head of Projects at The Institute for Accountability in Southern Africa (IFAISA), wrote an opinion piece for Daily Maverick titled; The Justice John Hlophe Inquiry Papers: Going nowhere fast. This piece was originally written by Hoffman in 2008 but in light of the ongoing allegations surrounding Judge […]
When you are in a court in which the judge, the prosecutor, the accused, and the defence lawyer all speak isiXhosa, why should the proceedings be English? There are several answers to this, which are put forward in judgments and at the Judicial Service Commission, but they ring increasingly hollow. The main argument is that […]
Magistrate Conjwa was unwise in putting her name forward for consideration at the JSC in October. She had been castigated by the commission in a previous interview for having had a judgment outstanding for 14 months. She came back to the JSC for a second bite at the cherry, but unbelievably enough with another judgment […]
Judges Jafta and Nkabinde are determined to make legal history, but not necessarily for the right reasons. They have asked for an order of the Constitutional Court to be rescinded. “In an affidavit filed on Tuesday, Jafta said they wanted the order rescinded because the court had not given them the opportunity to make submissions […]
Is the day of reckoning for Judge Hlophe finally near, for the part he allegedly played in improperly talking to Constitutional Court Judges about the pending trial of Jacob Zuma? A decision of the constitutional court this week means that the quibbling about whether the way the law sanctions judges is constitutional or not is […]
