THE FAILED APPLICATION TO SHUT BRINK UP AND SHUT HIM DOWN

If not personally instigated by him, then at least certainly known to and heartily approved by Mlambo JP, since all litigation by and against LASA is reported to its Board of which he was then chairperson at the time, LASA had another go at annihilating Brink by applying for an order stripping him, like a banned person under apartheid, of his most basic rights to information and to approach the courts to enforce the law when flouted by LASA – by trying to interdict him (a) from accessing any more of LASA's records, including key records it had pledged to turn over in a settlement agreement signed at court a few months earlier after totally capitulating moments before argument to his PAIA litigation to compel their delivery, which records LASA continued and continues withholding in contemptuous and flagrant breach of its surrender treaty handed into court; (b) from proceeding with his pending PAIA litigation against LASA; and (c) from ever suing LASA again to compel the production of duly requested records, or for any other reason, on the back of the fatuous allegation that he's a 'vexatious litigant'. After listening to LASA's counsel's stupid argument, which he made plain he thought was junk from the word go (having spent a week studying the papers, he said), Vahed J quickly threw the bum case out without even calling on Brink to argue.

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