Manual Workers Union has changed its mind, and is now defending the judgement of Justice Abednigo Tafa which declared unconstitutional and nullified the appointment of Court of Appeal (CoA) judges by President Ian Khama. Government has launched an urgent appeal against this ruling. Khama – through the Attorney General – also want CoA to suspend the operation of the orders made by Justice Tafa pending the decision of the intended appeal, to allow for the court to continue business in its current composition. This, he says, is in the public interest. Opposing the stay of execution in papers filed on Friday morning, the National Organising Secretary of the union Johnson Motshwarakgole, argues that all judges of appeal are conflicted, and there is a practical impossibility in constituting an appeal court since the Judge President Ian Kirby, who is a member of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) is responsible in terms of Section 10 of the Court of Appeal for empaneling the court for purposes of appeal hearings. "The applicants have no prospects of success on appeal. The greatest asset the judiciary has in the dispensation of justice in any democratic society is the confidence the members of the public have…