The judges body needs introspection as it prepares for interviews for vacant positions.
Women and black men are seriously outnumbered by pale males at South Africa’s corporate law firms.
With criticism about an all-male candidates list ringing in its ears, the Judicial Service Commission will interview candidates in Johannesburg.
"As Antoine de Saint-Exupéry said, it is harder to judge oneself – and one may add, the fruits of one’s labours – than to judge others."
President Jacob Zuma’s choice of Raymond Zondo for top court judge has been undermined by the notion that it was a done deal.
‘I will not hesitate to confront anybody who actually does something that poses a threat to the independence of the judiciary,’ says Mogoeng.
Former chief justice Sandile Ngcobo says South Africans should not take their rights to freedom of expression and information for granted.
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/ 6 February 2012
Judges should disclose their financial and business interests, a group of lawyers says. But that shouldn’t necessarily apply to their relatives.
The Cabinet wants an independent review of decisions made by the Constitutional Court.
Good: the executive may learn something.
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/ 12 September 2011
Ultimately the president has the power to appoint the chief justice, but this does not mean the JSC should act as a rubber stamp.
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/ 12 September 2011
Why is President Jacob Zuma and the JSC imposing Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng as our chief justice when he is clearly unsuitable for the position?
Jackie Selebi’s conviction has been a victory for the independence of the judiciary, but now the onus is on the NPA to prove itself.
If someone was convicted of murder but later granted amnesty for their action, does that mean we should no longer call him or her a murderer?
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/ 27 November 2009
Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo is setting out to transfer the administrative side of the courts to the judiciary.
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/ 13 November 2009
The recent spate of appointments to the Bench has again focused attention on the criteria for judicial appointment.
Law and order has almost always been a political no-brainer; even in the most tranquil of democracies voters thrill to the rhetoric of the big stick.
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/ 23 September 2009
How race — and Judge John Hlophe — turned the judiciary upside down. Sello S Alcock reports.
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/ 18 September 2009
DA leader Helen Zille complained in her weekly online letter on Friday that the ANC is taking party control over independent institutions of state.
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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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/ 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
Gauteng Judge President Bernard Ngoepe has come out of the conservative closet with his recent critique of the Constitutional Court’s liberal history.
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/ 5 September 2009
Timing is the key for Judge Nkola Motata if he is to have any hope of keeping his job after being found guilty of drunken driving this week.
Chief Justice Pius Langa retains the moral high ground when dealing with sensitive issues, writes Sello S Alcock.
Sello Alcock’s report of his interview with Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe in last week’s M&G has stirred up a hornet’s nest.
Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe believes his sin was to side with the ANC president.
Will the Judicial Service Commission rely on racial populism alone?
An Eastern Cape candidate judge caused a stir before the JSC when he told members he left priesthood for law because he concluded there is no God.
The ANC is trying to turn the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) into a ”thinly disguised party instrument”, DA leader Helen Zille said on Friday.
South Africa’s first political-style campaigning for a judicial position kicked off on Thursday.
A lobby group hoping to see Cape Judge President John Hlophe in the chief justice’s chair say he has been attacked and mistreated by the media.
Détente between the judiciary and government was in the air this week after nearly half a decade of battles about the nature of transformation.