LASA'S COMPLAINT AGAINST BRINK FOR CRITICISING THEN-BOARD CHAIRPERSON MLAMBO JP'S GROSS MISCONDUCT
September 2021; see link at the end for developments in 2024/5
On 2 June 2021, Brink delivered to the Legal Practice Council ('LPC') his second response to the complaint that LASA made against him to the Society of Advocates of KwaZulu-Natal ('the Society') on 24 November 2015, principally for oppuning the integrity of then-LASA Board chairperson Dunstan Mlambo JP in his pleadings and affidavits filed in his various litigations against LASA.
Brink first answered the complaint in mid-2017 by providing the Society with copies of his eight gross misconduct complaints against Mlambo JP made to the Judicial Conduct Committee of the Judicial Service Commission.
The Society's Bar Council failed to decide the matter, so in March 2020 the LPC resolved to reinvestigate.
BRINK'S SECOND RESPONSE:
Response signed (PDF, 66 MB)
Response final draft unsigned for sharpest resolution, clearest print and optimum legibility (PDF, 600 KB)
Response as a webpage (HTML) for easy reading on a hand-held device
ANNEXURES
Combined paginated
annexure bundle (PDF,
183 MB; 64 documents; 3014 pages)
Brink's letter to Zondi JA on the Judicial Conduct Committee of the Judicial Service Commission ('JSC') on 17 June 2021
Note that Brink's second response to the LPC in June 2021 was drawn before learning from Hlophe JP's review papers in September 2021 that Mlambo JP was on the Judicial Service Commission. As discussed in Brink's objection the following month to Mlambo JP's nomination for appointment as next Chief Justice, this new information makes it highly likely (a) that then-JSC secretary the late Lynette Bios didn't act off her own bat in twice asking the Society of Advocates of KwaZulu-Natal to apply for Brink's strike-off (it didn't) for impugning his integrity; and (b) that Mlambo JP repeatedly instructed her to do so in an attempt to rub Brink out as a witness against him.
For further developments in 2024/5, see corrupt-judges.co.za/LPC.
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