The dispute is now set to go to independent arbitration in November this year after the two parties agreed to remove the battle from the Western Cape High Court.“The case has not been thrown out‚” Roux’s lawyer Frikkie Erasmus told TimesLIVE.
“This doesn’t make it a better or worse outcome because a competent arbitrator has been appointed and was agreed to by both parties.“We have no idea how long the hearing will take because there are a lot of witnesses to be called.” Erasmus said that arbitration could be open to the public‚ but that both parties would have to agree to it.The case‚ which was scheduled to start in the Western Cape High Court on May 13‚ was postponed ‘sine dine’ – a legal term meaning ‘with no fixed date’.
“The university accordingly does not claim the following: that the money in issue was not spent on behalf of the university‚ that it would otherwise not have spent that money ‚ or that it did not obtain the goods and services paid for.
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