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 chief justice played into the hands of Julius Malema at a point at which the judiciary is weathering a political onslaught that too shall pass
A candidate for the Northern Cape bench lucidly explained in reply to the Gauteng Judge President that bribing a judge is a lottery you are bound to lose
Public enterprises minister denies that he tried to influence the appointment of a judge and friend to the SCA in 2016
Judges Fayeeza Kathree-Setiloane, Jody Kollapen and Bashier Vally complete the list, while Dhaya Pillay fails to make the cut
The Western Cape judge president has rejected the report by a judicial tribunal that lays the groundwork for his impeachment
The judge, who has been singled out by former president Jacob Zuma for attack, faced scrutiny over her friendship with Pravin Gordhan
Acting Constitutional Court Justice Rammaka Mathopo told the JSC it was ‘remiss’ that female and black lawyers were still underrepresented
Bongo dismisses the state’s application as a waste of money, driven by ‘dark forces’
The tensions in the Western Cape division are likely to trigger another inquiry into Goliath’s and Salie-Hlophe’s dispute, with potentially dire consequences
The JCC’s recent ruling against the chief justice is a win for accountability that enforces the principles of judicial authority
The state capture commission’s star witness now faces a criminal complaint and another summons
The summons to compel the former president to appear before the state capture commission stands, says legal head
Allegations that Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe planned to assassinate his deputy, Patricia Goliath, are leading to further instability on the Cape bench
The committee says if two complaints against him are found to be true, they are “extremely serious”
In an extraordinary move for a judge, the deputy judge president says she secretly recorded a meeting that proves she was insulted by Judge President John Hlophe
The Cape Bar Council says his conduct is ‘unbecoming the holding of judicial office’
The Judicial Conduct Committee’s decision in the Hlophe vs Goliath matter means those judges at loggerheads will have to continue to work in one court
Judicial Conduct Committee decides on a different type of investigation into the gross misconduct complaints between the Western Cape judge president and his deputy
The process of appointing the public protector is flawed, and led by politicians who don’t seem to have paid attention to the law. This has to change
Ten judges say that, in the dispute between the Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe and his deputy Patricia Goliath, their colleague has shown a serious lack of integrity
Judge Mushtak Parker is implicated in an application to strike off his former partners. He is also involved in the fight between the Western Cape high court’s judge president and his deputy
The Western Cape Judge President has made a counter-complaint against his deputy and responded to her allegation
Removing them, even temporarily, is not easy. And for good reason, writes Franny Rabkin
In response to Goliath’s gross misconduct complaint, Salie-Hlophe says Goliath has ‘an unhealthy obsession with my marriage’
But the new complaint against the Western Cape judge president is also unprecedented
Nkola Motata’s case is the closest democratic South Africa has come to impeaching a judge
At the heart of the fierce exchange are questions about how well a move for the judiciary to govern itself is being implemented
Though cleared of gross misconduct, he retired high court judge must pay a fine of over a million rand
This week, the president made his first appointments to the Constitutional Court: Supreme Court of Appeal judges Zukisa Tshiqi and Stevan Majied
Justices Zukisa Tshiqi and Steven Majiedt will begin at the Constitutional Court on October 1