Standard Bank wants court to prevent ministers from intervening
29 March 2017
Johannesburg - Standard Bank is arguing that Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s declaratory order should be vertically extended to include preventing the cabinet ministers from intervening in banking matters.
“There is no reason to confine relief to the minister himself,” argued advocate Vincent Maleka.
“It should extend to any act by a minister to intervene in banking matters."
Judge President of the Gauteng Division of the High Court Dunstan Mlambo wanted to know why Standard Bank can’t simply get an interdict on an ad hoc basis or bring a new application to court.