THE CRITERIA FOR JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA
Webinar held: 13:00 – 14:15, Thursday, 30 September 2021
Judges Matter hosted a webinar to discuss issues relating to the criteria employed in appointing judges in South Africa. The webinar was prompted by the recent court challenge brought by the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (CASAC), which sought to set aside the nomination of candidates for the Constitutional Court due to alleged irregularities in the interview process. Whilst the litigation was settled, the webinar sought to discuss the issues raised by this challenge, and to debate how to ensure that the same shortcomings were not repeated in the forthcoming October 2021 Judicial Service Commission (JSC) interviews.
The panellists were:
• Advocate Dali Mpofu SC, member of the JSC and JSC spokesperson, and practising advocate;
• Advocate Morné Olivier, practising advocate and former associate professor of law; and
• Mr Dan Mafora, research officer at CASAC.
