SANEF Welcomes Ruling on Hlophe Hearings

The South African National Editors Forum (SANEF) has welcomed a High Court ruling that Cape Judge President John Hlophe’s hearing before the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) should be open to the media.

“Media groups and the Freedom of Expression Institute made an urgent application to the court that in the interests of 'open justice' and the fact that the issues were of high public interest, the hearings should be conducted in public,” SANEF said in a  press statement.

The SANEF comments follow Judge Nigel Willies' judgement that a decision by the JSC to bar the media and the public from the hearings had not satisfied the commission’s own rules.

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