The Legal Resources Centre hails court order as stunning victory for indigenous communities along the coast
Parliament and the Democratic Alliance are challenging the high court ruling that a judge may not form part of the panel conducting a preliminary inquiry as to whether there are grounds for impeaching the public protector
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 public protector has called for the impeachment process against her to be halted with immediate effect
The high court and the magistrate’s court have rejected bids for bail by Zane Kilian, one of the accused in the murder of top cop Charl Kinnear
Advocate Dali Mpofu asked the high court to set aside parliament’s rules for an impeachment process and send legislators back to the drawing board
The public protector is not challenging her fitness to hold office, but the rule enabling the National Assembly to remove her from office
Judge says appellant’s evidence ‘riddled with improbabilities and untruths’ and defence failed to prove any exceptional circumstances that would allow bail under schedule six charges
The urgent bail appeal of Zane Kilian was heard in the Western Cape high court
The bail application hearing of alleged underworld figure Nafiz Modack and co-accused has been postponed to 24 May
The Judicial Service Commission deferred a decision on whether to suspend the Western Cape judge president. He was present, but mostly silent candidates were interviewed for the division
The commission has dismissed three requests not to proceed with interviews for candidates for the Western Cape high court
The letter follows the commission’s insistence that the embattled Western Cape judge president will partake in this week’s interviews of candidates
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
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
Former state security minister walks free after judge finds there is not sufficient evidence of attempted bribery to scupper Eskom probe
The Western Cape high court is expected to rule soon on the minister’s bid to seek vindication from the supreme court
The judge ruled that corporations should not be allowed to use the legal system against citizens and activists
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 South African Human Rights Commission and housing activists brought — and won — an application to halt lockdown demolitions of what the City of Cape Town said were unoccupied dwellings
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
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
Despite commendable work and persistent battles, not enough
is being done for these learners
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
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