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Legalbrief   |   your legal news hub Wednesday 04 September 2024

Teachers to chart next move, and other brief reports

*Four teachers unions are to meet tomorrow to finalise their response to government submissions on their dispute over a six-year backlog in salary raises based on time served. – Business Day

* A prosecutor from Germiston briefly appeared in court yesterday on charges of fraud and forgery, said East Rand police. Superintendent Andy Pieke said the 28-year-old prosecutor was arrested on Friday. He allegedly took out a loan of R6 500 in November in the name of a magistrate at the Germiston Magistrates’ Court. – News24 * Ukraine\'s Supreme Court yesterday turned down four appeals of last month\'s presidential election results filed by Viktor Yanukovych, the former Prime Minister, who preliminary results show lost to a Western-leaning reformer. It was the latest in a series of moves by Yanukovych to overturn the December 26 election won by Viktor Yushchenko. – Mail & Guardian