🧑⚖️Journalist Karyn Maughan’s urgent application to set aside Zuma's private prosecution was stood down due to the judge’s conflict of interest. Catch up on the story here: karynmaughan JacobZuma
Regarding Downer and Maughan’s applications challenging the prosecution, Zuma’s legal representative , advocate Dali Mpofu told the court that the parties have agreed that these matters be heard on 8 and 9 December, while the private prosecution case itself be heard in 2023.“By agreement with the parties, it would then be postponed to 2nd of February 2023, and that is at least from our point intended to create sufficient time so that there will be a judgment in the civil matters, Mpofu said.
However, Steven Budlender, legal representative for Maughan, argued that there was no agreement that the matters should be heard on the ordinary roll. “They are not consolidated, they are going to be heard together and there is agreement that we will ask the Judge President to allocate a judge to hear them on the 8th and 9th of December at the same time.
“And there is that the criminal matter can then stand until the 2nd of February 2023. There is not agreement that the matters should be heard on the ordinary roll quite the contrary as my learned friend says… The agreement is that it should be heard for two days,” he told the court.Budlender further said that the notion that Maughan no longer asserted urgency was “equally incorrect”.
“Ms Maughan’s position is that is extremely urgent and she wishes to have it heard as soon as possible because her case, as it appears on the papers, is that he application has been brought for the sole purpose of harassing her, intimidating her and preventing her from doing her job. Of course Mr Zuma disputes that and he is entitled to dispute that, but that is Ms Maughan’s case,” he said.
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