A court has found last year’s proceedings of the JSC, where it dismissed a complaint of gross misconduct against Judge John Hlophe, were invalid.
Members of the legal fraternity are eagerly waiting to see if John Hlophe recommends the JSC re-advertises four vacancies on the Cape Bench.
As premier of the Western Cape, Helen Zille should have been party to the JSC’s deliberations on Judge John Hlophe, a court was told on Wednesday.
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/ 28 January 2010
The Judicial Service Commission wants Western Cape Premier Helen Zille’s court challenge against its hearings on John Hlophe dismissed.
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/ 24 December 2009
Kader Asmal has applied to join proceedings to set aside a JSC decision not to hold a hearing on the John Hlophe-Constitutional Court judges dispute.
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/ 5 November 2009
Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe’s son Thuthuke is to go on trial in March next year on fraud and other charges.
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/ 23 October 2009
Clumsy intensity and toothless delicacy are equal and opposite errors in constitutional law. Law is, as Judge Albie Sachs says, ”congealed politics”.
John Hlophe will withdraw his appeal to the Constitutional Court over an alleged violation of his rights, one of his lawyers said on Monday.
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/ 24 September 2009
The JSC may have dealt Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe a slap in the face this week, but the Africanist perspective still triumphed.
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/ 22 September 2009
Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe did not make the JSC’s shortlist of seven judges for four posts on the Constitutional Court.
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/ 22 September 2009
Cape Judge Dennis Davis did not take kindly to questions put to him on Monday about Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe.
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/ 21 September 2009
Judge Chris Jafta had to revisit the controversy over Judge John Hlophe when he was interviewed for a post on the Constitutional Court on Monday.
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/ 21 September 2009
Judge President Hlophe said he would “love” to be part of the Constitutional Court during his interview for a post on the bench by the JSC on Sunday.
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/ 18 September 2009
The Judicial Service Commission’s grilling of candidate judges for the Constitutional Court positions kicks off in Soweto on Sunday.
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/ 17 September 2009
Johann Kriegler will turn to high court action in his bid to challenge the JSC decision over Judge John Hlophe.
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/ 11 September 2009
Sello S Alcock quizzed former Constitutional Court judge Johann Kriegler about the decision taken by the Judicial Service COmmission on John Hlophe.
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/ 9 September 2009
Only gross misconduct can lead to impeachment, but because the term isn’t defined, John Hlophe can’t be convicted of it
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/ 8 September 2009
Fudge, muddle and mediocrity are the emerging modus operandi for resolving tension between law and politics
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/ 7 September 2009
No member of the Freedom under Law (FUL) board of directors was opposed, in principle, to the pending legal challenge against the JSC, the FUL says.
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/ 7 September 2009
Former judge Johann Kriegler has a condescending attitude toward black people, said JSC member advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza, SC.
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/ 6 September 2009
Freedom Under Law (FUL) on Saturday said that it regretted resignations by its board members Cyril Ramaphosa, Kgomotso Moroka and Dumisa Ntsebeza.
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/ 6 September 2009
The JSC found that Hlophe’s actions were improper, but did not constitute the "gross misconduct" legally required for impeachment.
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/ 5 September 2009
The JSC could find itself facing a second challenge to its decision on Judge John Hlophe, this time from Western Cape premier Helen Zille.
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/ 4 September 2009
The DA and Cope on Friday welcomed former judge Johann Kriegler’s legal challenge to the dismissal of the misconduct complaint against John Hlophe.
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/ 3 September 2009
A law body headed by former judge Johann Kriegler intends challenging the JSC’s decision not to probe Cape Judge President John Hlophe.
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/ 3 September 2009
Former Constitutional Court judge Johann Kriegler is to challenge the decision not to proceed with a misconduct probe into Judge John Hlophe.
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/ 2 September 2009
Cape Judge President John Hlophe will return to work on Monday, the Justice and Constitutional Development Department said on Wednesday.
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/ 1 September 2009
The judges who laid the misconduct complaint against John Hlophe said on Tuesday they had no comment about the JSC decision to dismiss the dispute.
The Judicial Service Commission on Friday dismissed the dispute between Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe and the Constitutional Court.
The Judicial Service Commission said on Friday it would not proceed with a formal investigation into a gross misconduct complaint against John Hlophe.
Western Cape Judge President Judge Hlophe was on Friday afternoon still waiting to hear whether the JSC had dropped a probe against him.
All eyes will be on the Judicial Service Commission on Friday when it makes known its initial findings on the complaints relating to John Hlophe.