Geoff Budlender
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Hlophe’s return would undermine integrity of JSC, court told
The unrepentant conduct of the impeached-judge-turned-politician makes him unsuitable for a body that chooses and disciplines judges
Judicial Conduct Tribunal hears Parker was initially adamant Hlophe assaulted him
The Western Cape high court judge faces two complaints of impeachable misconduct
EFF case brings back the spectre, and strangeness, of Phala Phala
Judges ask the president’s and the National Assembly’s counsel if parliament threw the baby out with the bathwater
Trial judge explains why Zuma’s tilt at Downer is doomed
The former president will proceed to seek leave to appeal, potentially delaying his arms deal trial further
‘It is not for Zuma to decide who should prosecute him,’ says advocate Geoff Budlender
Jacob Zuma’s lawyer, Dali Mpofu said the former president’s criminal trial would not proceed soon, because he would again ask for the removal of state prosecutor Billy Downer
Constitutional court holds Ramaphosa’s suspension of Mkhwebane was valid
The apex court said there was no evidence that the president acted in a way that exposed him to a conflict of interest between his official duties and private interests
High court halts Zuma’s prosecution of Downer and Maughan
The former president came to court with ‘unclean hands’, a full bench found
Zuma’s private prosecution bid is a mirage, say lawyers
The former president’s counsel was misreading the law in an attempt to pin charges on state prosecutor Billy Downer and journalist Karyn Maughan, the court heard
Zuma’s private prosecution of Downer is ‘diehard Stalingrad’
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
Mkhwebane’s suspension rests on facts, not optics, Concourt hears
Advocate for the president tells the apex court the high court finding that her suspension was retaliation was refuted by the ample grounds for the decision
Concourt hears landmark ‘Slapp’ defamation and free speech case
The case isn’t only about environmental lawyers and activists being slapped by ‘rapacious’ miners with a series of defamation lawsuits, but about the rule of law
R1.6bn freezing order sought by NPA for Transnet ‘corruption’
Gupta associates received ‘lucrative’ payments for attending one meeting that allegedly influenced Transnet’s awarding of contracts worth billions of rand
Court victory for 400 000 elderly black women
An apartheid law that dispossessed black women of the assets accrued during their marriages has finally been scrapped after a Pinetown pensioner, facing impoverishment, went to…
Women lawyers: ‘We are not respected’
A letter signed by 40 senior women lawyers called the absence of female silks from the state capture prosecutions team ‘astonishing’
Matjila on a witch-hunt
The inquiry into the PIC has heard that the parastatal’s head contravened laws in his bid to expose a whistle-blower