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Serjeant at the Bar | Political influence at JSC doesn't bode well for our constitutional democracy

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The author writes that Judge David Unterhalter, one of the finest jurists South Africa has produced in the contemporary era, was overlooked yet again in the recent round of JSC interviews.
The author writes that Judge David Unterhalter, one of the finest jurists South Africa has produced in the contemporary era, was overlooked yet again in the recent round of JSC interviews.
Theana Breugem

Failure to implement urgent changes to the JSC can only weaken the judicial institution and, with it, the resilience of constitutional democracy in this country, writes Serjeant at the Bar.

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