Dudu Myeni's lawyers say delinquency judgment is 'case of judicial plagiarism'

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Dali Mpofu, Nqabayethu Buthelezi and Noxolo Kekana made this submission in their heads of argument whereby Myeni seeks to appeal the order made by judge Ronel Tolmay in May this year.

Myeni is also appealing against an application by the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse and the SAA Pilots Association where the two organisations seek the execution of Tolmay's order.

Myeni's advocates said in heads of argument, filed on September 25, that what was expected to be an impartial and objective judgment of the court on Myeni in May was anything but. “The judgment as a whole has only 21 paragraphs out of 285 paragraphs that can be said to be the court's own words. In the circumstances, this is classic case of judicial plagiarism,” Myeni's advocates said.

“The problems presented by the current situation is that in copying the entire judgment of , the court has ended up not dealing with crucial legal questions and evidence that are central to the issues.”They said the gaps in the judgment demonstrated the lack of impartiality in how the court had dealt with the matter.The advocates claimed the court also erred in imposing a life ban on Myeni, meaning she must never hold the position of company director for the remainder of her natural life.

“Not only is such sanction unprecedented and unwarranted in the circumstances, but it also clearly induces a sense of shock and is 'disturbingly inappropriate', to borrow from the criminal law of punishment and sentencing,” they said.

 

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Humpty dumpty dali dali

Clutching straws. Who cares because them lawyers keep coining from ignorance.

Myeni's lawyers must stop smoking cement dust. It damages the brain.

is there an independent judiciary in SA that in nuetral, impartial. or we have politicians as judges. I am just asking

Can anyone tell me when last did Dali Mpofu won a court case. He just busy ripping off his client, but then again they deserve it.

Another of Jacobs prostitutes

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