COSTS
As regards the issue of costs, it is the usual practice
that amici curiae are not awarded costs.
However, this is an extraordinary case which warrants an
extraordinary order as to costs. The manner in which the applicant has
conducted himself has left the two amici with no option but to intervene and
join in ...
COSTS
As regards the issue of costs, it is the usual practice
that amici curiae are not awarded costs.
However, this is an extraordinary case which warrants an
extraordinary order as to costs. The manner in which the applicant has
conducted himself has left the two amici with no option but to intervene and
join in these proceedings so as to safeguard their interests. This is so
because this application is so intricately linked to the two orders given by
the High Court and the Supreme Court requiring the issuance of certificates
nolle prosequi. The reason why the other parties are here at all is that the
applicant has stubbornly, unreasonably, inexplicably and unlawfully refused to
comply with both the law as well as extant court orders.
In the event, only a punitive order as to costs against the
applicant would have sufficed.
It was accordingly so ordered.
