/ 11 May 1999

LUYT JUDGMENT TAINTED

PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela’s legal counsel on Monday said the High Court judgment which overturned the appointment of the Browde commission of inquiry into the affairs of the SA Rugby Football Union was ”riddled with bias”. Advocate Wim Trengove told the Constitutional Court there was a ”pattern of frequently wrong rulings” in the judgment made by Pretoria High Court judge William de Villiers in August last year which overturned the commission’s appointment. The judgment followed a case brought to court by Sarfu and its then president Dr Louis Luyt, against the appointment of the commission in 1997. They contended that Mandela only rubber-stamped the commission’s appointment.