Complaint against Hlophe must now be concluded, Constitutional Court orders
IT WAS in the interests of justice for the gross misconduct complaint against Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe — now dragging for over eight years — to be concluded without any further delay, the Constitutional Court said in a judgment on Wednesday.The 2008 complaint against Judge Hlophe by all the then-justices of the Constitutional Court rocked the judiciary and divided the legal fraternity. But despite increasing calls for it to be put to rest, it has remained unresolved, with numerous twists and turns and intervening litigation.Unless there is yet another twist, Wednesday’s judgment from the highest court clears the way for the Judicial Service Commission to finally resolve the Hlophe complaint and for all the other judicial conduct tribunals — which had ground to a halt because of the litigation — to proceed. Judicial Conduct Tribunals investigate potentially impeachable misconduct and complaints against at least six judges are pending before tribunals.The Hlophe compla...
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