Cape Times (Digital)

Cape Times (Digital)

1 Issue, 2024-03-14

Advocate in judge’s ‘all-white counsel’ query remains defiant despite probe

ADVOCATE Johan Brand has maintained that High Court Judge Mandlenkosi Motha’s instruction that legal counsel in a case before him must file heads of argument regarding the lack of diversity in their team had nothing whatsoever to do with the merits of the case, among others. Judge Motha’s instruction related to a case about black economic scorecards, but the advocates in the matter were all white. The case in question concerned Periform Work Scaffolding Engineering against the Commissioner of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Commission. Judge Motha cited potential violations of the Constitution, which addresses the need to correct past inequalities, as his concern. He then ordered the legal team to submit heads of argument to him regarding the matter. However Brand, one of the senior advocates appearing in the…
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