Judges called on to act against judiciary laws
Judges would be irresponsible if they did nothing to halt proposed new legislation regulating the judiciary, two senior members of the Bench have warned in a Sunday Times report.
They were speaking at a workshop in Cape Town on the continuing fundamental disagreement between the government and the judiciary about a series of proposed new laws that judges say will take away their independence. The president of the Appeal Court, Judge Craig Howie, said the judiciary and the drafters of the Bills were in unequivocal dispute (about certain aspects) and remain so. Both he and Gautengs Judge President Bernard Ngoepe told the workshop that judges had to act now, before the Bills became law. Full Sunday Times report