You must accept responsibilty for blunder

“But, if you have a blunder you must accept responsibility for the blunder. I think one of the things that impressed the meeting was the fact that there has not been any acceptance of responsibility by the JLSC, or apology, or as I like to say, beg pardon,” Daly said.

Daly said he believed Thursday’s vote of no confidence was because people felt that they had been disrespected.

“As far as I am concerned, this is a very, very important moment to the pressure of public opinion,” he said. Daly said the CJ would have to decide whether he would resign from his post.

“All along we have been saying do the honourable thing. If people lose confidence in you it does not mean that you have committed some constitutional wrong.

You have conducted yourself in such a way that you have destroyed people’s confidence in you, and therefore you can’t can’t continue to preside if people have no confidence in you,” he said. Daly said people did not understand that the confidence in power had two components.

He said legal authority meant people had the law behind them, and moral authority.

When asked what this decision meant for the CJ, Daly said the moment one exercised legal powers without legal authority, they became illegitimate.

“He has to decide what he wants to do, I can’t speak for him,” he said.