NO doubt about it, the government has sustained a serious moral and legal setback with today’s judgment from the Supreme Court of Appeal slamming Pretoria’s failure to arrest and hand over Sudan’s President Al Bashir to the International Criminal Court …Share...
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...
