Is it compulsory for a Judge to go through hundreds of pages of a judgement for several days? Is it not possible to summarise a judgement into about 10-15 pages and have a “Reasons Document” that can be distributed later or attached to the Summary Judgement. I suspect it is a waste of time to put aside number of days just to read a judgement that both parties will still have time to study and respond to at a later stage.

I guess Judges are just enjoying the attention.

See below;

The former police chief and senior Interpol officer also faces charges of defeating the ends of justice.

He has pleaded not guilty and the State has relied heavily testimony from Agliotti to convict Selebi.

Listing a number of issues the court had to rule on, Joffe also said it had to be determined what role former national prosecuting authority chiefs Vusi Pikoli and Bululani Ngckuka played in the prosecution of Selebi.

Joffe ruled that a DVD recording by members of the Directorate for Special Operations (DSO) was admissible as evidence.

The Barnard case is here http://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZALC/2010/10.html

However, as quoted: “aligning oneself with ‘unconventional’ philosophies such as liberalism or atheism may be ways to communicate to everyone that you’re pretty smart”, is juvenile y in my view.

“‘unconventional’ philosophies”… what crap!

So many ways to attack those who claim to be liberals by those with lazy thinking..

Yet it is liberals who care about liberal-ty, meaning all equal under the law.

That’s hardly likely to make an overall impact.

The primary determinant, for “some among us”, re that which is wrong, even bad, in our society, is race.

It’s what makes Lesetja Kganyago an almost faceless DG of Finance (we do know that he wears bold coloured ties) vs the highly competent and visible Dr Ramos notwithstanding the seamless transition, or Andrew Coleman a legend at SAA vs the failure that was Khaya Ngqula or that which made the recently reported nepotism at Vodacom relatively irrelevant or the middle page coverage of Tannebaum and Graeme Minne and and and …

Corruption, incompetence, greed, criminality is outrageous and unacceptable when Black people are the culprits.

Otherwise it’s just not nice when people get caught out, eh!