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South African judiciary not in a happy state

UNRESERVED JUDGMENT

THE surgeon and the judge. Those are two professions where there can be no compromise on exacting standards.

Surgeons bury their mistakes. Not so the judiciary.

Every judgment, recorded in black and white, is open to public scrutiny. Every flaw, inconsistency and absurdity is exposed to scorn.

And the state of the South African judiciary is not a happy one.

Routine judicial housekeeping is falling by the wayside. Reserved judgments go undelivered for years because of excessive workloads on good judges and, on the part of bad judges, laziness and (let’s be frank) an

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