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IF ANYTHING stood out from another day of legal arguments on
Wednesday in the North Gauteng High Court hearing over the disputed
21.4% mineral right in Sishen mine, it is this: both the state and
Imperial Crown Trading 289 (ICT) badly want to make Kumba Iron Ore [JSE:KIO] pay
for dragging them to court with “unclean hands”.
The concept of “unclean hands”, Google tells us non-legalistic types, is when the accused parties in a legal case claim the plaintiff is not entitled to the remedy it wants on account of the fact that the plaintiff was acting in bad faith all along.
The state is quite forthright about this. Its Senior Counsel Willie Vermeulen told Judge Raymond Zondo it would lay a charge of fraud against the iron ore miner.
Click here if you want to read the full version of the article.
The concept of “unclean hands”, Google tells us non-legalistic types, is when the accused parties in a legal case claim the plaintiff is not entitled to the remedy it wants on account of the fact that the plaintiff was acting in bad faith all along.
The state is quite forthright about this. Its Senior Counsel Willie Vermeulen told Judge Raymond Zondo it would lay a charge of fraud against the iron ore miner.
Click here if you want to read the full version of the article.
