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Calls for two judges accused of crime to step aside while a third appears before Judicial Conduct Tribunal on a complaint of impeachable misconduct
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Call for Eastern Cape judge president to step aside over sexual harassment and hearings begin in misconduct charges against Gauteng judge Makhubele
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While he challenges its recommendation that he be suspended, the judge president was allowed to take part in the JSC interviews with candidates in his division
He argues in court papers that the JSC’s advice to the president to suspend him is a violation of the Superior Courts Act
The retired constitutional court justice was ordered by the Judicial Conduct Committee to withdraw comments that questioned Hlophe’s fitness to be a judge and faulted his acquittal on ANC MP Bongani Bongo
The high court said Western Cape judge president’s arguments were either not sustainable or worthy of a review application and held that the Judicial Service Commission’s directive that he faces an impeachment process stood
The court found that the organisation’s past history in ensuring the misconduct inquiry against the Western Cape judge president was reopened refuted, rather than supported, Hlophe’s objections
The application means it is unlikely that Hlophe’s bid to review the misconduct finding against him will be heard this year
The embattled Western Cape Judge President is also seeking to interdict the president from suspending him while he challenges the Judicial Service Commission’s gross misconduct finding
Judge Hlophe knew the ‘standards of judicial ethics’, yet still compromised the concourt’s independence
JSC will await representations on whether Hlophe should be suspended by Ramaphosa, pending the finalisation of parliamentary deliberations
The Judicial Service Commission did not near finality on the matter on Friday and the matter was postponed to the next available date
Johannes Mahlangu’s torture by police and charge for a murder he didn’t commit should never have happened
The letter follows the commission’s insistence that the embattled Western Cape judge president will partake in this week’s interviews of candidates
The Judicial Service Commission said in a letter to the Cape Bar that the judge president would participate in interviews of aspirant judges in his division
Premier Alan Winde and the Cape Bar Council asked that the interviews be postponed pending a decision on Hlophe’s fate but the JSC declined
The Western Cape Judge President has made a counter-complaint against his deputy and responded to her allegation
Deputy Judge President Patricia Goliath accuses Hlophe of attempting to influence her to allocate the case to judges he perceived as ‘favourably disposed’ to former president Jacob Zuma
Though cleared of gross misconduct, he retired high court judge must pay a fine of over a million rand
The tribunal against Judge John Hlophe was postponed exactly a year ago and the next step remains unclear
Free State High Court Judge Cagney Musi recuses himself in the interests of justice and the judiciary