The apex court has ordered a costs order on a punitive scale against a legal professional who it said had been litigating vexatiously and had defamed a member of the judiciary.The Constitutional Court on Tuesday made a self-admitted"impolite and harsh" judgment on Tuesday, slamming a lawyer for his poor conduct.The court said Tjiroze had been litigating frivolously and vexatiously, at great expense to the Financial Sector Conduct Authority .
"It seems impolite and harsh to start a judgment by telling a litigant that her or his cause must fail. But if there ever was a candidate for that kind of opener, this is it," said justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga in a unanimous judgment in an application brought by Tjiroze. Tjiroze worked as state counsel for seven years, conducting prosecutions in the office of the prosecutor-general of Namibia. Thereafter he worked for Sanlam, first in Namibia and later in South Africa, as a legal advisor and in legal compliance, respectively.
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