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Elisha, Johan and Dan are joined by Mbekezeli Benjamin of Judges Matter to update you on judicial governance under lockdown, including the relationship between the Office of the Chief Justice and the Department of Justice. We bring to your attention the Chief Justice\u2019s special Easter service: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCvGzvH5zhQ.\n\nWe then focus on the role of law in the Covid lockdown. Dan covers the appointment of former ConCourt Justice Kate O\u2019Regan as COVID-19 designate judge to oversee the government\u2019s information-gathering for a contact-tracing database. We then provide an overview of some of the legal challenges to the state\u2019s lockdown measures. These include the threatened challenge to the liquor ban, Afriforum and Solidarity\u2019s challenge of affirmative action provisions on the tourism fund, lawyers having trouble with permits to travel and appear in court, a challenge to the closure of mosques without exception, the sale of baby clothes, the regulation of police and military misconduct, and Durban and Cape Town\u2019s efforts to demolish informal settlements.\n\nBhavna Ramji of the Casual Workers Advice Office makes an appearance to explain their successful effort to compel employers to apply to the Disaster Fund set up to supplement the government\u2019s Unemployment Insurance Fund on behalf of their employees.\n \nMbekezeli then helps us all unpack the many controversies and conflicts in the governance of Western Cape High Court since Deputy Judge President Goliath filed a JSC complaint against Judge President John Hlophe. We also unpack a shadowy paragraph of DJP Goliath\u2019s complaint and questions it raises about judicial appointments and transformation.\n\nWe end by briefly discussing Justice Edwin Cameron\u2019s appointment as Chief Judge of the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services and why this is so important in the era of Covid-19. Edwin Cameron\u2019s fight for humane prisons: https://www.newframe.com/edwin-camerons-fight-for-humane-prisons/.\n\n\nFinal mix and master by Daniel Basckin.\n \nOutro music: \u2018Monday Jam\u2019 performed by Daniel Basckin, Jude Kenrick and Dominic Hurd (feat Zehir Omar).