judicial appointments Archives

The JSC must play its strategic ‘Human Resources’ function

The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) needs to take a more ‘HR’ style, strategic approach to its role in judicial appointments.

Preview of the JSC April 2024: The JSC must again focus on criteria and more

A preview on the April 2024 JSC Interviews and why it is important that we are all paying attention. During this round of interviews the JSC will be looking to fill positions on some of South Africa’s top courts.

Our most read articles of 2022

Throughout the year we write articles to share information about the JSC, the judges’ interview process, and the South African judicial system as a whole. This year was a particularly busy year for the judiciary, marked by a number of significant events, including but not limited to the Chief Justice Interviews, the Deputy Chief Justice […]

Women and the bench: What Justice Mandisa Maya’s interview tells us about women’s place in the judiciary

While judicial appointment bodies do consider race and gender in diversifying the judiciary – and there has been an improvement over the years – there is still a gap in our judicial system. The gap is in respect of judicial leadership positions. Here women are under-represented by far.

President appoints judges from April 2021 JSC interviews

Following the April 2021 interviews and the recommendations of the JSC, President Ramaphosa has now appointed 28 candidates as judges

Issues facing the judiciary in 2021

What are the major issues facing the judiciary in 2021?

Why the JSC’s no acting, no appointment policy could lead to bad appointments

Whenever there are vacancies in the judiciary, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) advertises those vacancies, receives nominations, shortlists candidates, and public interviews are conducted to select candidates who are then recommended for appointment by the President. In order to qualify for appointment as a judge, one must be appropriately qualified and must be considered to […]

Examining the JSC deliberations process

In a ground-breaking decision on 25 April 2018, the Constitutional Court ordered the release of the records of a deliberation of the JSC in October 2012, during which the JSC took a decision to advise the President to appoint certain candidates as judges of the Western Cape Division of the High Court, and not to […]

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