Chief justice interviews: Mandisa Maya - The head of the supreme court of appeal said if appointed she would import some appellate court customs to the constitutional court to speed up turnaround times
of the apex court, was the first candidate to be interviewed. It will be Gauteng Judge President Dunstan Mlambo’s turn on Thursday and Zondo’s on Friday.
Maya suggested if she were appointed she would reintroduce it because the current custom wastes time, and that she would import other work practices from the appellate court to the apex court to make it function more efficiently. She suggested there was also room to consider a further constitutional amendment to increase the number of judges at the constitutional court from 11 to 15. and there may soon come a time when the constitutional court needs capacity. It may be now.”
She countered, firstly, that the same question could be put to Zondo, and secondly that she had been told the constitutional court rejected 95 percent of applications to appeal, hence those that were overturned presented “a tiny fraction” of the output of her court. “We are trying, commissioner, we are trying to get it right.”
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