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“Disgraceful abuse of legal authority” – attorney re-writes court’s judgment before delivery

by Carmel Rickard | Feb 19, 2019

In what two high court judges have described as misconduct “unprecedented in the annals of SA judicial history”, a magistrate has been found to have allowed an attorney to re-write his judgment before delivery. Even worse, the attorney concerned had …Share...

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