Legal expert weighs in on Zuma's application to avoid arrest
A legal expert says one of two things could happen when former president Jacob Zuma's urgent application to avoid arrest is heard in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Tuesday.
"One is that the court will entertain the application and stay the arrest of ex-president Zuma, which I believe will be fundamentally flawed because you cannot override the authority of the Constitutional Court," says Sunil Singh, who's with Sunil Singh and Associates.
"What would be a prudent thing to do in the second stance is that, based on the fact that the police have given him three days within which to hand himself over, they can act in the circumstances.
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"The court may direct that he approach the Constitutional Court and ask them for that warrant to be stayed, together with the application which is already going to be heard on the 12th [of July]."
On Monday, the Constitutional Court will hear the former president's argument to have his 15-month prison sentence for contempt of court overturned.
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