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Chief Justice accuses Justice Komboni of forum shopping

CJ Terence Rannowane
CJ Terence Rannowane

Chief Justice (CJ) Terrence Rannowane has likened Justice Gabriel Komboni’s actions to lodge his cases before the Maun High Court's Judge Professor Bugalo Maripe to “a blatant instance of forum shopping”.

In an application made before the Court of Appeal in which the CJ seeks an expeditious hearing of his appeal against Justice Kombone and the execution of orders made by Maripe against him stayed, CJ Rannowane says there was no justification for Komboni to have registered his cases in Maun at the first instance.

CJ Rannowane and Gaborone High Court's Justice Komboni have been engaged in a bitter legal battle following last year’s decision to relocate the latter to the Francistown High Court.

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