Bulawayo High Court judge, Justice Nicholas Mathonsi reproached greedy lawyers who slow down the court process in order to get more money from their clients. Justice Mathonsi was officially opening the legal year for the Gweru High Court Circuit when he made these remarks. However, Justice Mathonsi noted that these lawyers were a minority.
In his remarks Justice Mathonsi said:
Regarding legal practitioners, although the majority of them have done a sterling job in the preparation of papers in readiness for court and them must be commended for that, there are still a few who still harbour wrong intentions, those who believe that they must consistently come to court to seek a postponement of matters on flimsy grounds
Quite often this group of GUS (Giving unsatisfactory service) think that matters are set down to be postponed. They are usually motivated by a desire to buy time on behalf of those that they represent either because they have a bad case and want to shelter under the wings of the court or they would like to use the court themselves to extract a fee from a client.
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