Judges unmoved by lawyer’s excuse of East London client ‘rising from the dead’
A Makhanda attorney’s claim that his client “rose from the dead” was not reason enough to overlook the attorney's “lackadaisical” late filing of court papers, three judges sitting as an appeal bench in the city’s high court found. ..
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