Gauteng Deputy Judge President Roland Sutherland has read lawyers the riot act over a growing tendency to rush all manner of undeserving civil cases to urgent hearings.
This was one of “several undesirable practices by some attorneys and some counsel” that “imperilled” the effective adjudicating of urgent matters at the Johannesburg High Court, Judge Sutherland stressed.
Judge Sutherland said due to the congestion of the urgent roll, “routinely each is confronted with some 60 matters, or more”. He urged the lawyers not to be intimidated by clients who push for the urgent hearing of their matters. “To curb this abuse, judges shall consider the award of punitive costs de bonis propriius where non-urgent matters are enrolled.
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