Pretoria judge slammed for 'failing law'

[DigitalSoldier]

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20061019033343302C739242

Nothing new

A woman whose mother was murdered is fuming at Pretoria High Court judge Justice Ntsikelelo Poswa's decision to grant R1 000 bail to the 64-year-old's alleged killers.

Judge Poswa's decision to grant bail to Abram Mabena, 22, and Oupa Frans Bofu, 25, has also been slammed by a full bench of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA), who have just released their reasons for nullifying the bail order last month and reissuing warrants for the men's arrest.

 

[Getafix]

You are totally correct.

Nothing new.

Another quota advocate appointed as another AA judge. Totally under qualified, so inebt at his job that if he was a driver I would not allow him to drive a wheelbarow.

Now I am thinking. When Zuma was so deep in it, not once did he use, in a team consisting of three advocates, one of his own exceptionally well qualified
senior advocates. I mean they are appointed to the highest courts by the very party of which he is the vice (no pun) president. These people then make decisions about other people's lives.

Or was his own neck on the line?

 

[Riq]

Sometimes i find the need to defend my country and say they're doing there best. It's understandable that the cops out there are arrogant/under trained etc.. But when a Judge does something like this!

 

[Omac]

I can't imagine how difficult it must be for the poor womans family. Hopefully they rearrest the accused soon and this travesty can be corrected.

I wonder what sort of censure the judge gets or is the decision of the Supreme Court of Appeal considered to be sufficient?

 

[Getafix]

Nothing!

 

[Omac]

Getafix - Is that a fact? No censure?

 

[Getafix]

Nothing!

Firstly the judge president told him he was wrong. He showed the judge president a toffee. State appealed to the court of appeals. A full bench told him he knows nothing of the law. (Translated) Now we start all over. The police must look for the fugitives again, arrest them and charge them in the magistrates court. Another two years.

Judges are, as close as damit to swearing, above the law.

The judge president may fire him. It has never happened in our entire legal history. The worst he will be reprimanded in private, but never in public.

Think about this. The protocol ladder:
1. The State President
2. The Judge President of South Africa
3. ...

PS. The judge president I was refering to in the first paragraph is of Transvaal as opposed to the judge president of South Africa.