The Johannesburg high court dissed MK’s urgent court application to halt JSC interviews
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.The MK Party applied to stop the JSC interviews as it wanted impeached former Western Cape judge president John Hlope to be allowed to be part of the panel that will interview future judges. party’s attempt to halt the Judicial Service Commission interviews scheduled for next week was dismissed on Saturday at the Johannesburg high court.
This comes after the party applied to stop the interviews as it wanted impeached former Western Cape judge president John Hlope to be allowed to be part of the panel that will interview future judges. Hlophe would be the parliamentary leader of the MK during the interviews. On Friday, his lawyer, advocate Vuyani Ngalwana SC, asserted that Hlophe was “one of the most maligned individuals in the country” after the newly-minted MP was impeached earlier this year, and refused a seat on the JSC.
Last week, the Western Cape high court prohibited Hlophe from participating in the interviews as he awaits the outcome of legal challenges to the decision to designate him as a member of the JSC. The party then wrote to the JSC requesting a postponement of the interviews, but was refused and so turned to the court with an urgent application.spanning almost 16 years, sparked by his attempts to sway constitutional court judges in favour of Jacob Zuma in cases related to the“The appointment of Dr Hlophe to the JSC will inevitably undermine the independence, dignity and effectiveness of our courts,” the Western Cape court said last week.
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