PRESIDENT ZUMA APPEALS THE GAUTENG NORTH HIGH COURT DECISION
23 May 2016
President Zuma, the third respondent in the matter between the Democratic Alliance and the Acting National Director of Public Prosecutions, has today filed a notice of application for leave to appeal the decision of the Gauteng High Court.
The President believes that the decision of the Court affects him directly and is of a strong view that the Court erred in several respects in its decision.
The grounds on which the application is based include the following:
The Court erred as a matter of law in matters including the interpretation and application of the case law relating to rationality as a ground for a legality challenge, and in holding that the National Director of Public Prosecutions is not entitled to terminate a prosecution on the basis of prosecutorial misconduct and the abuse of the prosecutorial process;