Western Cape judge 'should have told police' about alleged assault by Hlophe

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Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng says he told Western Cape deputy judge president Patricia Goliath in a meeting that he could not use his authority to resolve the challenges relating to judge president John Hlophe's alleged conduct

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In her meeting with the chief justice last year, Goliath said Hlophe had allegedly assaulted another judge. Goliath told the chief justice at the meeting that she had been requested by the alleged victim of assault and another judge, to find out from Mogoeng whether he would have any principled objection to the allegations being reported to the police and Judicial Conduct Committee.

“He also informed deputy judge president Goliath that failure by any judge to report these allegations to the structures with the legal authority to address them would be a betrayal of what judgeship or the judiciary is all about,” Mogoeng's office said.

 

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This judge is above the law

Cape Town judges are themselves, bringing disrepute to the judiciary by politicising and scheming with StratCom Daily Maverick on JP Hlophe alleged assault matter, when they don't use their wisdom to report and deal with this matter through proper channels and methods

Hlophe disgusts me. He is single handedly destroying the WC judiciary and gets away with all his Bs everytime.

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