By Thapelo Molefe
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s legal team has rejected claims that the Constitutional Court’s earlier Phala Phala judgment effectively settled the issues at the heart of his bid to halt Parliament’s impeachment process, telling the Western Cape High Court the country’s highest court never ruled on the legality of the independent panel’s findings.
The High Court heard further argument on Thursday in Ramaphosa’s urgent application to stop the public hearings of Parliament’s Section 89 impeachment committee pending a review of the independent panel’s report that found sufficient evidence for an impeachment inquiry.
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Advocate Wim Trengove SC, for Ramaphosa, argued that while the Constitutional Court referred the panel’s report to Parliament’s impeachment committee in May, it did not determine whether the panel had correctly applied the law.
“What is absolutely plain is that it did not purport
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