Staff Reporter.
The Constitutional Court has dismissed former lawyer Seth Nthai’s application to appeal a Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) judgment that overturned his readmission to the Bar.
The highest court dismissed Nthai’s application with costs.
Nthai’s was removed from the roll of advocates by the high court in Pretoria in 2013 after He was found to have attempted to solicit a bribe from an Italian businessman four years earlier.
He was also found to have discussed his legal strategy and other details of a case over mining rights with the Italian investor, who was suing his client, the South African government.
Nthai successfully applied for readmission as an advocate and that application was granted by the full bench of the high court in Polokwane in May 2019.
However, the Johannesburg Society of Advocates and the General Council of the Bar (GCB) successfully appealed against the Limpopo decision in the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA).
Nthai sought to appeal against the SCA decision passed in December last year.
In the order dated July 28, the ConCourt said it has considered the application for leave to appeal. “It has concluded that the application for leave to appeal should be dismissed as it does not engage this court’s jurisdiction,” the court said in its order.