senior counsel

Paul O'Sullivan considered launching an urgent application against Vodacom after discovering phone records were in possession of Radovan Krejčér, but was advised against it by Senior Counsel and did not proceed.

“I planned to launch an application... against Vodacom... I drafted a sworn statement for it, but I never actually launched. And the reason I never launched was because when I got Senior Counsel's opinion, he said that I might fail with that application. So, I decided to keep my powder dry.”

Mr Mogotsi offered to assist the process of identifying names and numbers in his possession through his lawyers but currently does not know who John is and has no phone containing those contacts.

“if there is anything which perhaps Senior Counsel may want to be, if it can be done with my lawyers ... I did talk about the names, I am ready ... I can get the lawyers to even submit them to Senior Counsel ... At this juncture, he does not know who John is, he does not have his phone”