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The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has let it be known that Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe will be present at the interviews on Friday, 23 April of candidates for two vacant positions in his own fraught division.
Hlophe’s intention to appear at the interviews and the JSC’s communication on 19 April that the Judge President will be doing so, occur in a sort of legal vacuum, a place in which Hlophe thrives.
It took more than 13 years for a complaint about Hlophe’s inappropriate approach to two Constitutional Court judges in 2008 to be heard by a Judicial Conduct Tribunal, chaired by retired Judge Joop Labuschagne, which unanimously found Hlophe guilty of gross misconduct.
The Judicial Conduct Committee has dismissed complaints against Western Cape High Court Judge president John Hlophe’s wife, Judge Gayaat Salie-Hlophe.
On January 15 2020, Western Cape High Court Deputy Judge president Patricia Goliath lodged a complaint of gross misconduct against Hlophe and Salie-Hlophe, who is also a judge in the same division.
Goliath alleged that Hlophe and Salie-Hlophe had engaged in conduct that compromised the proper functioning and integrity of the court, and seriously impinged on the court’s dignity.
Among the complaints levelled against Salie-Hlophe were that she was improperly involved in the management of the high court, that she enjoyed preferential treatment and that she made unwarranted complaints against colleagues that were entertained by Hlope assumably because he is married to her.
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