The Judicial Service Commission’s (JSC) Judicial Conduct Committee, led by Deputy Chief Justice Mandisa Maya, has actually discovered there was “no basis” to a litigant’s bribery claims versus Judge David Unterhalter– and worried it was “not appropriate” to make such unproven claims.
“To make this sort of allegation versus [Unterhalter] with definitely no basis is seriously hazardous both to him and the judiciary. It needs to be deprecated highly. Obviously, problems ought to be lodged to the JCC [Judicial Conduct Committee] for judges’ breach of the Judicial Code of Conduct. It is, nevertheless, not appropriate to lay unproven claims versus judges,” the JCC specified.
Unterhalter had actually been inquired about the grievance laid versus him by Eric Achuko in relation to a supposed February 2023 “kickback e-mail” when he was spoken with for a job on the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) previously this year.
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