Bar dismisses EFF’s attempt to have Shaun Abrahams struck off the roll
The General Council of the Bar (GCB) has dismissed the EFF’s attempts to have National Prosecuting Authority head Shaun Abrahams struck off the roll of advocates. The EFF wrote to the GCB last year after Abrahams announced that he had reviewed and set aside the decision to charge Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan with fraud. The party believed that the national director of public prosecutions had violated his constitutional duties and was neither competent nor fit and proper to be an advocate of the High Court. In a response to the EFF, sent on Thursday, GCB chairman Vuyani Ngalwana said he had carefully considered the matter, but believed that the chances of a court application striking Abrahams off the roll of advocates being successful were "poor". He also said he did not believe that Abrahams’s conduct, about which the EFF had complained, justified such an application. "A finding that Mr Abrahams has displayed ‘poor judgment’ in the execution of his function as national director o...
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