RETALIATION
December 2025
On 2 June 2021, Brink filed a response to a professional assassination attempt in the Babita Deokarun tradition in South Africa, contrived to rub him out as the witness to Mlambo JP's criminal corruption.
Can you believe that email records turned up by a broadly framed PAIA request addressed to the Society of Advocates of KwaZulu-Natal ('Society') reveal that the Judicial Service Commission ('JSC'), of which Mlambo JP was in effective control at the time, actively and repeatedly supported LASA's attempt to professionally exterminate Brink by getting him struck off the roll of advocates, so as to preemptively discredit him and his eight impeachable complaints against Mlambo JP before the JCC got to consider them? The email records are quoted in the said response.
Consider the documented facts set out in Brink's said response submitted to the Legal Practice Council ('LPC'), in which he detailed the Society's grotesque mishandling of LASA's complaint against him in November 2015 for allegedly unprofessionally impugning Mlambo JP's integrity in court papers filed in his various litigations against LASA, and decide for yourself whether Mossop J of the KwaZulu-Natal Division, then a senior advocate, is the sort of guy who troubles himself to study the evidence in exceptionally serious disputes that have been entrusted to him to determine with capital implications for affected parties, or whether he's wont to decide such gravely important matters without actually doing so, all the while despicably dishonestly dissembling otherwise. Read how his own colleagues didn't trust and believe him, smelt a rat, disregarded his purported findings contained in his final report to them (provably made without having read the tiresomely voluminous, closely detailed and fully vouched answering papers), and how these legal colleagues of his resolved to get to the truth of the matter by taking the matter out of his hands and into their own, namely by examining all the papers and deciding the case themselves. In other words, on an assessment of the sickening facts documented in the response, form your own conclusion as to whether Mossop J can be trusted and relied upon to honestly and diligently decide disputes placed before before him upon a careful consideration of all the documented facts, or whether, like Mlambo JP and Waglay JP, he's a lazy, slimy, smooth-talking crook. And a self-serving moral coward.
A letter to Brink from the Legal Practice Council ('LPC') on 8 November 2024 announcing its decision to try him for professional misconduct for criticising Mlambo JP.
The complaint against Brink in November 2015 by Legal Aid SA ('LASA') and Brink's responses to it are linked here.
Brink reported this retaliation in a letter to Justices Nkabinde and Makgoka (in pdf; as a webpage) on 5 December 2024, copied to Chief Justice Maya, to the Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa, and to the LPC.
A request under the Promotion of Access to Information Act ('PAIA') on 14 January 2025 for access to LPC records concerning its decision to hold a disciplinary enquiry.
A legally confused response. Brink's reply (in pdf; as a webpage) on 15 April 2025 (a) to the LPC's announcement that it's reconsidering its decision to prosecute him, (b) to its incorrect 'opinion' that a response to his records request would be 'premature' until the matter is redecided, and (c) its request for copies of (i) the Judicial Conduct Committee's Appeal Committee's ruling (material excerpts marked up; complete) to uphold Brink's appeal in the Mlambo JP case, (ii) the Judicial Service Commission's grossly irregular decision on multiple scores to rejection the Appeal Committee's ruling, (iii) the transcript of the JSC's virtual conference at which this irregular decision was taken -- concluding with a demand for a response to his PAIA request within a month, and that LASA's complaint against him be promptly reconsidered and dismissed, or see you in the High Court. The complete email chain, vouching delivery and acknowledgment of Brink's PAIA request in January 2025; the LPC's announcement of its intention to reconsider the matter; and delivery and acknowledgment in April 2025 of Brink's reply and its annexures (documents (i), (ii) and (iii) linked above).
On 24 June 2025, a complaint to the Information Regulator ('IR') about the LPC's failure to comply with Brink's PAIA request, delivered.
On 25 June 2025, a supplementary records request, delivered. To which the LPC answers there are no disciplinary proceedings pending and LASA's professional miscondcut complaint would be reconsidered. In reply, Brink insists his PAIA request be responded to regardless, and the LPC replies that it's onto it. So Brink asks the IR to hold its horses for the time being.
On 5 September 2025, the LPC's response.
On 30 September 2025, Brink demands (PDF; webpage version) the decision of LASA's 10-year-old complaint against him by the end of November; PoD.
On 1 October the LPC promises prompt attention.
The LPC responds on 2 December 2025: Brink is to be tried on some distant future date (because 'backlog') for allegedly unprofessionally complaining of the documented criminal corruption of Mlambo JP (as he then was, now DCJ), even as the latter's criminal mendacity was recognised by Justices Nkabinde and Makgoka on the JSC's Judicial Conduct Committee Appeal Committee in their decision on 19 February 2024 to uphold Brink's appeal against the dismissal of his complaints about it and to recommend that Mlambo JP answer Brink's criminal complaints against him before a Judicial Conduct Tribunal.
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