The applicant a registered legal practitioner has approached this court seeking a review of the decision of the respondent wherein the latter referred applicant’s disciplinary matter to the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal. The applicant contends that the decision to refer his matter to the Tribunal violates his procedural rights in that the decision was biased, procedurally irregular and grossly irregular. The application is vehemently opposed. More
This is a constitutional court application filed in terms of rule 107(1) of the High Court Rules, 2021. The matter was heard on 19 November 2024. After hearing submissions from the parties’ legal practitioners, the court issued an ex tempore judgment the operative part of which was that the application was dismissed with no order as to costs. A letter from the respondent’s legal practitioners dated 31 January 2025 was placed before me wherein a request for written reasons for this court’s decision of 19 November 2024 were sought. What follows are the full written reasons thereof. More
The applicant filed an application in this court seeking relief which is stated in the draft order as follows:
The respondent’s termination of the applicant’s contract of employment effected on the 8th April 2005, and communicated to him by way of a letter dated 9th May be and is hereby set aside.
Prior to this dispute the applicant was employed by the respondent as a personal banker until the 8th April 2005 when his contract of employment was unilaterally terminated by the respondent. More
Afterthe preliminaries on 18 March 2013, the trial in this matter began in earnest on 8 April 2013. The defendant had the duty to begin. That had been the agreement at the pre-trial conference.
At the close of the defendant’s case the plaintiff applied for absolution from the instance. I reserved judgment. This is the judgment. More
This is the judgment in the interlocutory application by Efrolou [Private] Limited, Plaintiff in the case under reference number HC 1816/10, and First Defendant in the case under reference number HC 3285/10 [hereafter referred to as “Efrolou”] More
