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HvB’s legal team will apply for leave to appeal his conviction and sentence, his lawyer said on Saturday. "We intended to file them on Friday but we are not sure if they went in."
The application involves reams of paperwork with the court rules stipulating that it is made in triplicate with copies of the judgment and other orders of the courts the matter was previously heard in also handed in.
The affidavit motivating for leave to appeal is understood to be 30 pages long.
The rules also stipulate that every affidavit in answer to an application for leave to appeal must be lodged in triplicate within one month after service of the application on the respondent - indicating that there is still a long road ahead for the defence team.
Defence attorney, Lorinda Van Niekerk said she did not know yet whether the filing of the papers at the court in Bloemfontein had taken place yet, and would know on Monday when it opened.
Western Cape Director for Public Prosecutions said they had been told of this intention to approach the SCA, but had not seen the papers yet.
Van Breda applying to SCA for leave to appeal
The application involves reams of paperwork with the court rules stipulating that it is made in triplicate with copies of the judgment and other orders of the courts the matter was previously heard in also handed in.
The affidavit motivating for leave to appeal is understood to be 30 pages long.
The rules also stipulate that every affidavit in answer to an application for leave to appeal must be lodged in triplicate within one month after service of the application on the respondent - indicating that there is still a long road ahead for the defence team.
Defence attorney, Lorinda Van Niekerk said she did not know yet whether the filing of the papers at the court in Bloemfontein had taken place yet, and would know on Monday when it opened.
Western Cape Director for Public Prosecutions said they had been told of this intention to approach the SCA, but had not seen the papers yet.
Van Breda applying to SCA for leave to appeal