Judge diffuses potentially tense moment at JSC interview

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Pretoria high court judge Sulet Potterill on Tuesday told JSC commissioner Julius Malema she had only once been on a full bench with Gauteng judge president Dunstan Mlambo.

04 October 2022 - 17:16Pretoria high court Judge Sulet Potterill was on Tuesday interviewed for a position at the Supreme Court of Appeal. Stock photo.

Potterill was one of 11 candidates interviewed over the course of Monday and Tuesday for five vacancies at the Supreme Court of Appeal, the second-highest court. Malema, a JSC commissioner, asked her about “this thing that you are the most preferred person when it comes to high-profile cases there in Pretoria. And where the JP [judge president] sits in those cases where it’s a full bench, you are likely to be part of that full bench.”During the dramatic February interviews for chief justice, former JSC commissioners

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