Senior Counsel Chaskalson

Senior Counsel Chaskalson had a conflict of interest issue arising from his father being a President and a panel-based decision-making process was also considered in a tender matter involving him.

“there is another matter that I am aware of, which involves yourself, Senior Counsel Chaskalson, where your dad at one point in time was a President. You had been an Advocate in a specific matter, and a panel-based decision-making process was also considered. I am aware of the general matters around that in terms of the perception of conflict”

Senior Counsel Chaskalson acknowledges a perception of conflict of interest could reasonably arise for a third-party competing bidder regarding his objectivity in adjudicating a tender.

“a third-party competing bidder would have had a reasonable apprehension that you could not objectively assess this, be part of the adjudication of this tender”