The JSC on Monday afternoon opened the nominations process for the appointment of four Constitutional Court judges set to leave the court in October.
It may be the most urgent question facing President Jacob Zuma: whether to use his powers of appointment to rein in the courts.
A hearing had several false starts on Tuesday as the case pitting the Cape Judge President against Constitutional Court judges hit more hurdles.
WC judge president, together with 13 judges of the Constitutional Court, faces an unprecedented court-style inquiry into allegations of misconduct.
Judge President John Hlophe has returned to
work, stirring controversy and speculation, write
Nic Dawes and Sello S Alcock.
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Constitutional Court Chief Justice Pius Langa on Monday urged the public to refrain from personal attacks on judges.
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/ 15 October 2008
Rams Mabote’s open letter to President Kgalema Motlanthe on the stateman’s style of dress.
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/ 12 October 2008
Only four judges remain in the race to replace retiring Constitutional Court Judge Tholakele Madala.
Pretoria High Court Judge Eberhard Bertelsmann has withdrawn from the race to succeed Constitutional Court Judge Tholakele Madala.
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One of the first hot potatoes President Kgalema Motlanthe will have to handle is the choice of the 18th judge of the Constitutional Court.
Commentators weigh in on the likely Constitutional Court candidates
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The ultimate decision about dropping charges is thus not about morality but pragmatism, produced by the present balance of political forces.
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Former chief justice Arthur Chaskalson defended his successor, Pius Langa, in a letter on Tuesday, saying Langa has shown ”commendable leadership”.
Leading legal professionals have dismissed suggestions that the Constitutional Court is in disarray and that it suffers from poor leadership.
So many South Africans who have proven their bona fides in bucketloads are now being called enemies of the revolution.
Johannesburg businessman Hugh Glenister’s bid to stop the disbandment of the Scorpions will come before the Constitutional Court on Wednesday.
Sotyu proclaimed that the Scorpions would be dissolved because the ANC had decided to do so, despite public hearings into the issue.
ANC leaders prepare to push for legislation against prosecution of a sitting president, write Rapule Tabane and Mandy Rossouw.
Cape Town Judge President John Hlophe has called on the Judicial Service Commission to investigate Chief Justice Pius Langa for gross misconduct.
Director Jane Lipman couldn’t have wished for a better time to launch her thought-provoking documentary on the lives of South African women judges.
A united Constitutional Court deals Cape Judge President John Hlophe a devastating blow with a bombshell complaint to the Judicial Service Commission.
More revelations surfaced this week about Cape Judge President John Hlophe’s alleged attempt to influence Constitutional Court judges.
The Constitional Court is to meet on Monday to discuss how it can back up its ”undue influence” claims against Cape Judge President John Hlophe,
The Black Lawyers Association wants action against the judges of the country’s highest court, the Sunday Times reports.
The General Council of the Bar, representing most of the country’s advocates, on Tuesday added its voice to calls for Cape Judge President John Hlophe to step down. Chairperson Jannie Eksteen said if Hlophe did not voluntarily go on leave, the minister of justice or the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) ”must see how that can be facilitated as a matter of urgency”.
No date has yet been fixed for the Judicial Services Commission’s (JSC) meeting to consider new allegations against Cape Judge President John Hlophe, the JSC’s secretary said late on Monday. ”Right now they are still trying to find a date,” said commission secretary Vuyelwa Masangwana.
Cape Town Judge President John Hlophe must step down, political parties said on Sunday. Hlophe is accused of attempting to influence the Constitutional Court’s decision over search-and-seizure raids carried out by the Scorpions on properties of Jacob Zuma and French arms manufacturing giant Thint.
Andile Mngxitama’s critique of the HRC’s finding on blacks-only membership organisations has stirred up a hornet’s nest. Ferial Haffajee asked him why he is so angry.
The deployment of the army to areas hit by xenophobic attacks was long overdue, opposition parties said on Wednesday after President Thabo Mbeki’s nod to South African National Defence Force ”involvement”. South African police say 42 people have been killed in violence in Johannesburg that has raged for more than a week and 16 000 have been displaced.
Recently Chief Justice Pius Langa gave an address on the relationship between the media and the judiciary in which he said he hoped one day it might be possible for our judges to be ”ordinary” men and women. To be fair, he was responding to a question raising concern about the extraordinary pressure our transition is placing on judge.
Awards will be bestowed on a musician, a judge and a former chief of state of protocol, Billy Modise, during next week’s 11th national orders ceremony. Modise, United States musician and singer Harry Belafonte and Chief Justice Pius Langa are just some of those who will be recognised at the ceremony.
South Africa’s judiciary does not need an uncritical media that is over respectful of the courts, Chief Justice Pius Langa said in Durban on Sunday. He said the judiciary should ”jealously protect” the media and its right to free expression, but at the same time the media’s right was ”not totally unfettered and unrestricted”.