Stiff costs penalty in hard-hitting ‘Stalingrad’ ruling

A new decision by Lesotho’s High Court has thrown out an attempt to stop a prosecution on the grounds that the applicants’ constitutional rights were infringed. The court also imposed almost unheard-of costs penalties on counsel involved. In her A Matter of Justice column on the Legalbrief site, Carmel Rickard looks at the case, and explains why she found the judgment ‘electrifying’, especially in light of the many challenges brought by former President Jacob Zuma in South Africa in an attempt to derail the corruption trial long pending against him.