Chamber of Mines welcomes dismissal of consolidation application

The Pretoria High Court has dismissed, with costs, law firm Malan Scholes’s application to consolidate its case with that of the Chamber of Mines (CoM) to seek clarity on certain aspects of the Mining Charter. The move was welcomed by the chamber, which had opposed Malan Scholes’s ambitions of having the CoM’s declaratory order combined with its own court case as the law firm moved to have the Mining Charter declared unconstitutional and invalid.