The Office of the Chief Justice has confirmed that Supreme Court of Appeal President Mandisa Maya has dismissed former president Jacob Zuma’s latest legal bid to force the removal of prosecutor Billy Downer from his corruption trial. The Office of the Chief Justice has also strongly denied any suggestion that the delays in the SCA dealing with two Zuma appeals – his corruption trial reconsideration application and his bid to appeal a court ruling that he had been unlawfully granted medical parole – had been deliberate.