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May Legal Update: Adv Julie Seton vs Activist Mike Hampton

Mike Hampton Posted on by

I’m an activist in Knysna who belongs to no political party. Advocate Julie Seton operates in the Knysna Magistrates Court and as an administrator of the Facebook page Knysna Knews. I have accused Advocate Julie Seton of being, on behalf of the Democratic Alliance, part of a vicious propaganda campaign against me. She has emphatically denied this. The result has been both of us applying for Protection Orders against each other, both gaining interim orders in between. It was decided in front of Chief Magistrate Isak van der Merwe that … Read the full article…

The truth may be bitter but sharing it is sweet!

Update: Seton vs Hampton, Hampton vs Seton

Mike Hampton Posted on by

These cases involving me are getting more complicated in the Knysna Magistrates Court. Yesterday, March 22 2016, I was to face Advocate Julie Seton. In itself, that’s an interesting situation as Seton has represented several people against me. I claim that those cases are political and to shut me up. They claim that it’s to stop me being defamatory and that it isn’t political because it’s initiated in personal capacities. I tell you both sides, without arguing the merit as I have no intention of disobeying magistrates’ orders. You, the … Read the full article…

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