The battle lines have been drawn as former South African Revenue Service (SARS) spokesperson Adrian Lackay fights his "constructive dismissal" at the Commission for Conciliation‚ Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA).There was tension as the respective lawyers for Lackay and SARS made their opening submissions at the CCMA head offices in Johannesburg.SARS’s legal team has brought an application to have documents relating to the "rogue unit" declared inadmissible.Advocate Wisani Sibuyi said these were "irrelevant to the constructive dismissal case" before the CCMA.But Lackay’s legal team said that the documents were relevant and would argue their point after the application had been made.READ THIS: SARS spy-unit trio get paid R8.5m in restraint-of-trade agreementsAdvocate Paul Pretorius‚ SC‚ said SARS had made Lackay’s employment "intolerable"‚ forcing him to resign on February 19 2015.He was earning more than R1m per year.Pretorius said in the period from November 7 2014 to the date on w...
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