ABSA-BANKORP JUDGMENT
Mkhwebane in bid to appeal ruling that she pay legal costs
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane does not want to cough up the near-R1m ordered by the high court in the Absa-Bankorp judgment. She has applied for leave to appeal against the section of the judgment, handed down in February, that ordered her to pay part of the South African Reserve Bank’s costs in her personal capacity. The advocate was not challenging the court’s decision to set aside her report and its remedial action but just the adverse findings against her. Mkhwebane argued in her appeal that the full bench of the high court erred when it ordered that she pay the costs personally. She also said the court erred when finding that she did not fully understand her constitutional obligation to be impartial, according to her notice of motion filed in the high court last week. Mkhwebane disagreed with the judgment that she had exceeded the bounds of indemnification that she received under the Public Protector Act. She warned that the finding that she should pay costs personally wo...
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