THE DA has welcomes the decision by the Judicial Service Commission to redo interviews for the Constitutional Court judges after the Council for the Advancement of the SA Constitution (Casac) successfully challenged the JSC interview process and reached an agreement that has been submitted to the High Court to be made an order of the court.
This comes after the executive secretary of the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution, Lawson Naidoo, said the JSC had agreed to set aside its recommended list of candidates for Constitutional Court justices and redo all the interviews.
Almost all the nominees for vacancies at the Constitutional Court will be re-interviewed.
The last interview session of the nominees was criticised by CASAC which felt the panel went beyond questions the nominees should be expected to answer.
The candidates recommended to President Cyril Ramaphosa were judges Fayeeza Kathree-Setiloane, Jody Kollapen, Rammaka Mathopo,
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