Business Day (Johannesburg)
13 January 2009
IN A scathing judgment, the Supreme Court of Appeal said yesterday that the findings of Judge Chris Nicholson of the Pietermaritzburg High Court about political interference by the executive in the work of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) were "gratuitous", "inappropriate" and failed "to distinguish between fact and suspicion".
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Business Day (Johannesburg)
13 January 2009
THE judgment that was the catalyst for former president Thabo Mbeki being fired only four months ago was overturned in the Supreme Court of Appeal yesterday.
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Business Day (Johannesburg)
13 January 2009
THE Supreme Court of Appeal's judgment in favour of the National Prosecuting Authority in the Jacob Zuma case comes as a relief in terms of maintaining the credibility of the judiciary, but is something of a nightmare politically.
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Business Day (Johannesburg)
13 January 2009
JACOB Zuma is likely to spend the bulk of his presidential term in court fighting off corruption charges if the legal impasse between him and the state is not resolved before the general election early this year.
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Business Day (Johannesburg)
13 January 2009
PIETERMARITZBURG High Court Judge Chris Nicholson was supposed to deal with just two issues on which African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma relied in his application to set aside the decision by acting prosecutions chief Mokotedi Mpshe to prosecute him.
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Business Day (Johannesburg)
13 January 2009
PRESIDENT Kgalema Motlanthe will not be appointing a commission of inquiry into the arms deal despite the threat of a lawsuit for allegedly violating the constitution and yesterday's Supreme Court of Appeal judgment, his office said.
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Business Day (Johannesburg)
13 January 2009
JUDGE Louis Harms, the judge who delivered the judgment in the National Prosecuting Authority's (NPA's) appeal case against Judge Chris Nicholson's finding in the case against African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma is a self-confessed former Broederbond member.
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Business Day (Johannesburg)
13 January 2009
A SENIOR lawyer yesterday said he had never seen such a "vicious" criticism by one judge of a fellow judge as that by Supreme Court of Appeal Deputy Judge President Louis Harms against Pietermaritzburg High Court Judge Chris Nicholson.
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Business Day (Johannesburg)
13 January 2009
THE period ahead will tell us whether equality before the law will remain a key principle in our democracy - and whether public cynicism about politicians' motives will grow.
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