Lawyers for embattled Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe will argue not only that the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) is biased against their client but that its inquiry is illegally constituted. Seeking an interdict against the inquiry, Hlophe's team will use an opinion the JSC itself commissioned on who must be present at its hearings.
In a further development, the JSC has now admitted that it discussed the possibility that its membership might change under a Zuma administration and considered problems this could cause for its ongoing inquiry into Hlophe.
But, confirming these discussions, JSC spokesperson Marumo Moerane told the Mail & Guardian that the JSC's deliberation on these two issues did not "influence the majority" in arriving at its decision not to grant Hlophe a postponement. "They had nothing to do with the reasoning of the majority," he said.
On Wednesday Hlophe's lawyers sent a letter to the JSC declining to participate in "unlawful proceedings" and confirmed that they would be bringing an urgent court application to interdict hearings into their client.
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