Zuma’s legal team argues that issues raised must be heard and decided by the court hearing the criminal matter against the senior state advocate and the journalist
Advocate Dali Mpofu representing former president Jacob Zuma in the private prosecution matter before the Pietermaritzburg high court on Wednesday. Picture: SUPPLIED
“It is not a fashion statement that a judge in a criminal court wears red and in a civil court wears black — it symbolises the distinction between the two courts,” former president Jacob Zuma’s advocate Dali Mpofu argued on Wednesday. He alleges they contravened the National Prosecuting Authority Act through the “leak” of a court document containing his personal medical records. Downer and Maughan say the document was in the public domain, that the prosecution has been brought with ulterior purpose and that the charges are baseless.
“Should it be allowed that you have a criminal matter and then you say, ‘I am just going next door to the civil court to ask them to set aside this prosecution ... I will see you later’? Imagine if all accused could do that. There would be chaos. It’s bizarre,” he said.
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