IMAGINE this picture: the President of South Africa announces the names of a new crop of judges he has just appointed. Not unusual, you might say. But suppose this is the first the public has heard about the appointments. Suppose …Share this:Click to share on...
IF there’s just one legal story you remember this year, let it be this one: It’s the story of a taxpayer (who was not named in the court’s judgment) and what started off as a conventional property sale attracting capital …Share this:Click to share on Twitter...
EVER heard a judge say, in so many words, that the law being applied in a case is an ass? Welcome to the Alice-in-Wonderland world of Compass v Van Tonder, in which Judge Anton Steenkamp says not only that the …Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new...
It’s six months since my last column for the Independent Group and I would like to thank everyone who wrote and called to wish me well and to say how much they had enjoyed my weekly pieces over many years …Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new...
A NEWLY-appointed Zimbabwe judge has laid it on the line for her judicial colleagues: she said it was high time they handed down tougher sentences, with penalties indicating that sex with girls under 18 is always illegal and has serious …Share this:Click to...
