News24 | FUL slams JSC's snubbing of 'eminently suitable' SCA candidates as judges decry capacity crisis

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Judge David Unterhalter.

Hours after Freedom Under Law (FUL) launched its challenge to the Judicial Service Commission's (JSC) failure to fill two vacancies at the Appeal Court despite interviewing  "eminently suitable" candidates, South Africa's judges spoke out about how a growing capacity crisis was delaying justice.

FUL's case is focused on the JSC's October 2023 interviews to fill four vacancies at the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA), whose Deputy President Xola Petse had repeatedly stressed was desperate for competent and hard-working judicial officers to fill the void left by the multiple judges who had retired or been promoted from South Africa's second-highest court. 

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