ZIYAD MOTALA | What has gone wrong with our Constitutional Court?

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Recent judgments, not least its latest Zuma one, smack of personal predilections and politicking

For many years, our Constitutional Court basked in glory. It was lauded worldwide. Its judgments were studied in legal academies around the world. Many of our judges were in demand to teach seminars on the court’s enlightening and rich jurisprudence. Our citizenry has been so preoccupied with inept and corrupt government that we have been inattentive to the performance and at times sloppy jurisprudence emanating from our highest court.

Jurists look not only to the result of a court decision, but more importantly to the quality and depth of reasoning, even if one disagrees with the result. Of late, some important court decisions represent a prattle of nonsense leading to whispers that our apex court at times projects as a junior moot court bench...If you have already registered or subscribed, please sign in to continue.

 

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Those judges will pay for what they did to Zuma,,,our highest court in the land must never take a judgement which will devide our people reguardless of what

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