Picture File: State prosecutor Advocate Billy Downer and legal journalist Karyn Maughan appearing before the Pietermaritzburg High Court. Photo: Gallo Imagesis expected back in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Friday to defend an urgent application.and News24 journalist Karyn Maughan brought separate applications to enforce their successful bid to overturn Zuma’s private prosecution against them.operational and executable, pending Zuma’s application for leave to appeal.
If the order is granted, it would block Zuma from demanding Downer and Maughan appear in court for the private prosecution while the leave to appeal application is being heard.The Jacob Zuma Foundation spokesperson Mzwanele Manyi said Downer and Maughan’s application was a ploy to avoid appearing in the criminal court on Friday, 4 August for the private prosecution case which was postponed earlier this year.
“The urgent applications have been brought in terms of section 18 of the Superior Court Act, according to which a party may present exceptional circumstances which necessitate departure from the general rule that a judgment which is being appealed is suspended and has no legal effect,” Manyi said.
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