When a judge goes rogue …

Ever since her appointment as Chief Justice of the Seychelles in 2015, Mathilda Twomey, the first woman to hold this position, has been a target of sexist behaviour and threats by a particular senior colleague on the Bench. But though …Share this:Click to share...

This is home-grown graft – in any language

A SOUTH AFRICAN advocate and a firm of attorneys could be in serious trouble with their professional bodies after a high court judge said they had acted “unprofessionally or worse” and ordered that a copy of his judgment be given …Share this:Click to share on...

How a President ‘captured’ the judiciary

WHAT might a “captured” South African judiciary and judicial appointment system look like? While chilling stories from leaked emails suggest South Africa is no longer being run by its own president, that right having been bought by the wealthy Gupta …Share...