Johannesburg: Jacob Zuma's attorney Julie Mahomed was not embarrassed or humiliated during the Scorpions raid on her premises last month.

In fact, she sat on her office floor and cracked jokes with investigators while they searched and then seized her documents.

She also joked with them that she would not be responsible for any pornographic material found in her son's room.

This was revealed in the response, by the National Director of Public Prosecutions and the investigating director from the Directorate of Special Operations, to Mahomed's urgent application, which was filed in the Johannesburg High Court last week, requesting that her papers, which had been seized during the raid on August 18, be returned.

On the day of the raids Mahomed had claimed attorney-client privilege and had had the documents sealed and submitted to the registrar of the high court.

On another occasion during the raid she had joked with an investigator about evidence bags, saying, "we could buy as many evidence bags as we wanted from those of (convicted fraudster Schabir) Shaik's assets which had been forfeited".

Yesterday Mahomed responded to the answering affidavit admitting that she had "laughed out of embarrassment as much as for any other reason" when referring to the pornographic material.

She had claimed that she had felt humiliated and overwhelmed and that she had not been aware of her rights. However, in an answering affidavit, Scorpions senior special investigator Herbert Heap disputed this.

Heap also denied Mahomed's statement that she had not been aware of her rights, saying that her affidavit claiming privilege in respect of all items that might be seized confirmed to him that she knew "what she was doing and was well aware of her rights".

With acknowledgements to Nalisha Kalideen and the Cape Times.