The former president is again seeking the prosecutor’s removal from the arms deal trial, in doing so reviving old claims he leaked information to the media
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The delay has been forced by the former president’s latest application challenging the standing of state prosecutor Billy Downer
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It is an abuse process designed to lay the ground for the next, counsel for the arms deal corruption prosecutor told the Pietermaritzburg high court
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The high court will next month hear applications by the state prosecutor and journalist Karyn Maughan to have the case against them set aside
From a bid to overturn parliament’s rejection of the Ngcobo report to Jacob Zuma’s appeal to stay out of prison, political actors will fill the courts
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Ex-president has run out options in his bid to overturn the the high court’s 2021 dismissal of his challenge to the standing of state prosecutor Billy Downer
Judge Piet Koen has set the matter down for 30 January when he will announce whether he will recuse himself
The former president’s 11th-hour bid to appeal to the apex court on his standing as a prosecutor was not properly filed, hence the arms deal trial should resume
It’s the latest, and last available, attempt to appeal the dismissal of his plea that Billy Downer and the NPA can’t prosecute him in the arms deal case
The tone may be more muted than in past years but judges who penned politically unpopular rulings were again accused of ignorance of the law
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Judge Sulet Potterill told the JSC the battle to bring women into the highest echelons of the judiciary will be won
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The apex court said it was not in the interests of justice to allow an appeal in this instance
In her interview for the position of deputy chief justice, the appellate court president said she tried to resolve woes in the general office that has delayed cases involving Jacob Zuma but faulted the office of the chief justice for not stepping in
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Former president argues that SCA president Mandisa Maya misdirected herself when she dismissed his appeal
The office of the chief justice said it was regrettable that SCA president Mandisa Maya was being blamed for the delay
The National Prosecuting Authority has argued that the former president’s latest legal arguments are designed to delay his trial
The former president’s counsel told the high court he suffered a medical emergency, before pleading that the trial be delayed pending his latest attempt at securing the removal of the state prosecutor
The former president’s counsel told the high court he suffered a medical emergency.
Zuma will seek to stall his trial next week as his lawyers ask the head of the SCA to reconsider its refusal to allow him to appeal the dismissal of a special plea
The former president claims the high court misread the law and legal precedent when it denied him leave to appeal the dismissal of a special plea
Judge Piet Koen said there was no reasonable prospect of success for an appeal on the dismissal of Zuma’s plea to have Billy Downer removed as prosecutor and it was in the interest of all that his criminal trial resumes
Should the court deny leave to appeal, it is unlikely to be end of a legal strategy openly described by the state as one of continual delay
Dali Mpofu, arguing for the former president’s leave to appeal the high court’s refusal to remove prosecutor Billy Downer from his arms deal trial, hinted at a constitutional court challenge
Jacob Zuma has laid charges claiming that Billy Downer, and the NPA, have irredeemably tainted the arms deal corruption charges that have haunted him since 2005
Judge Piet Koen is expected to rule in late October on the former president’s latest stab at acquittal on corruption charges stemming from the arms deal
The former president was absent from court, but his counsel argued that health matters be left aside, so as to hear his case for the removal of Billy Downer
The former president’s foundation claims the NPA has not demanded he be assessed by a second doctor, but says he would be within his rights to refuse
Mogoeng chided for tongue-lashing
The former president requires surgery, which has been put off for the past 18 months, according to his doctor
The NPA argued there was no need for Zuma to testify in the special plea application to have Billy Downer removed as prosecutor and, hence, no need to postpone the matter
The state argues Zuma’s rights as an accused will not be violated if his bid for prosecutor Billy Downer’s removal and his acquittal is heard virtually