Jacob Zuma's lawyers will on Monday lodge an application for leave to appeal the Durban High Court's decision allowing prosecutors to ask authorities in Mauritius to release documents about meetings believed to relate to arms deal corruption.

Zuma's attorney Michael Hulley told Sapa on Friday that the appeal would be lodged on Monday and not on Friday as reported in the media.

Judge Phillip Levensohn handed down his decision allowing prosecutors to travel to Mauritius on April 2.

The decision to appeal was taken shortly afterwards.

Speaking the same day, Hulley said he "had an opportunity to brief" Zuma about Levensohn's decision and the ANC deputy president was "disappointed".

He said it "would be improper and premature" to indicate which points of Levensohn's ruling would be contested in an appeal.

Should Levensohn reject the appeal, then Zuma could petition the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein.

The documents the state seeks from Mauritius include the 2000 diary of Alain Thetard, the former chief executive of Thales International's South African subsidiary Thint (Pty) Ltd, which reportedly details a meeting in March 2000 between him, Zuma and convicted fraudster Shabir Shaik.

The NPA alleges that an agreement on a R500 000-a-year bribe for Zuma was reached at this meeting.

With acknowledgements to Sapa and Independent Online.