Mike Hellens News Today

After Tembeka Ngcukaitobi confirmed, it was revealed that the two senior counsels for govt defendants were likely to face a misconduct probe.

On 24 July 2023, for reasons that remain unknown to Daily Maverick, President Cyril Ramaphosa signed an order that discharged Judge Cassim Sardiwalla from his duties at the Gauteng Division of the High Court in Pretoria. As the trial judge in the Fred Daniel matter, Sardiwalla was presiding ove...

The Supreme Court is considering its judgement on an appeal by two senior South African lawyers found guilty of offences under the Immigration Control Act after they travelled to Namibia to represent six of the men charged in the Fishrot corruption case.

Judge Nompumelelo Gush is expected to hand over her judgment regarding the NPA's application for leave to appeal her previous judgment, which <a href="https://www.ofm.co.za/article/centralsa/324424...

Adv. Mike Hellens (SC) said there are no prospects of success in the state's plea for leave to appeal the previous judgment, which disc...

The last week of the fifth session of case number 34502/2010, the long-running civil trial that has pitted conservationist Fred Daniel against former Deputy President David Mabuza, was marked by testimony that included allegations of political interference, fears of assassination and details of...

It has become overwhelmingly clear that criminal syndicates thrive because they have deep ties to influential political figures, and they do not have to fear the members of a lacklustre security cluster.

All Nulane Investments accused have been acquitted, but observers had been warning for months that the writing was on the wall

Judgment in the application by seven of the eight accused in the first Gupta-linked state capture trial in the Bloemfontein High Court is expected on 12 April. Lawyers for the accused argued there was a lack of evidence, but the state hit back, saying there was common purpose to defraud.

The accused in the Nulane trial have argued the state had stuck to a preset conclusion about how it conducted its investigation and prosecution in the matter.