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Gauteng High Court judge Letty Molopa-Sethosa delivered a judgment that had been outstanding since August 2022. The case, however, never appeared on any of the judiciary’s reserved judgments reports. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks

Judge hands down ruling three years late

For most of that time there was no record in the official report that tracks late judgments

  • Eyaaz
3 min read
Storm dies down: Former judge John Hlophe, who was impeached in February last year, has resigned from the Judicial Service Commission. Photo: Luba Lesolle/Getty Images

JSC gets on with its work as Hlophe storm blows over

The commission has kept up a brisk pace in marathon interviews where there has been less politics and more judicial philosophy

  • Emsie Ferreira
9 min read
Many sexual offences are still framed in ways that rest on discriminatory assumptions. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G

JSC struggles to recommend Concourt candidate amid workflow, jurisdiction challenges

The Judicial Service Commission could not find the requisite four candidates after interviews notable for the justice minister’s eagerness to merge the court with the supreme court of appeal

  • Emsie Ferreira
8 min read
None of the four candidates for a vacancy at the apex court were in favour of merging it with the supreme court of appeal

Concourt candidates pressed on solution to its backlog problem

None of the four candidates for a vacancy at the apex court were in favour of merging it with the supreme court of appeal

  • Emsie Ferreira
11 min read
Judge Mngqibisa-Thusi is appearing before a judicial tribunal for delivering very late judgments. Image: Lisa Nelson

Judge ‘grossly misconducted herself’ says Mlambo

Judge Mngqibisa-Thusi delivered over 20 judgments late

  • Des Erasmus
4 min read