JUDGMENT

In the matter between:

and
SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL ROADS AGENCY

JUDGMENT

GAMBLE, AJ

This matter came before me this morning, at the end of a long week of motion court duty and on a day on which as the fast track judge I was required to attend to several matters of urgency. The alleged urgency in this matter concerns a signboard which was erected alongside the N2 Highway, between Caledon and Riviersonderend, proclaiming the applicant's wares as it were and advertising the applicant's services.

It appears as if the signboard was removed by the respondent, which is the Roads Agency, sometime in June, was re-erected by the applicant, or somebody acting on the applicant's behalf thereafter, and was then removed again on 8 September.

At page 416 (D) His Lordship continues thus:

Finally, practitioners are to be reminded that the fast track in this division is there for genuinely urgent matters and that practitioners who continue to abuse the process and waste the Court's time with matters which are on the face of it trivial and less than urgent, may in future find themselves to be the recipients of appropriate cost orders.