Judges: Stop Publicising Our Mistakes
15 judges in Gauteng have written a petition to the Judicial Service Commission condemning them for discussing bad decisions made by judges. They claim that doing so will harm transformation of the bench, although that’s not really an excuse you can tell someone after being falsely convicted (or to a family watching a murder suspect who had killed a relative walk free on a technicality). The petition however does have a signatory who is not exactly helping their cause, Judge Nkola Motata
...who faced criticism at the commission for the extent of his work backlog and because he left urgent matters incomplete while he attended a golf tournament. He is now on leave pending resolution of drunk driving charges.
Those kind of mistakes (especially that drunk driving one) are a little too public to be kept under the table.