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The Judicial Service Commission will interview candidates for the two vacant positions at the Constitutional Court on Tuesday. The appointments will bring the apex court closer to having its full set of 11 permanent judges. ....
But he referred to section 174(5) of the constitution, which required that at least four of the judges of the Constitutional Court had to be judges when they were appointed. He said this suggested that the constitution envisaged that not all of its judges had to be appointed from the bench and that a range of experience was envisaged. He said his path as a land claims court judge for five years and as chairperson of the UN s housing and property claims commission (established to resolve property claims after the conflict in Kosovo) gave him a different perspective that could be of some benefit to the ConCourt. ....