BLOEMFONTEIN: The Supreme Court of Appeal is scheduled to deliver judgment tomorrow on an appeal against search-and-seizure raids on the offices of former deputy president Jacob Zuma and his lawyers being declared invalid.

A spokesman for the court, Henry Snyman, said yesterday that judgment would be handed down in four appeals involving Zuma, his lawyers and French arms company Thint.

The National Prosecuting Authority appealed to the appeals court in August against a Durban High Court judgment in favour of Zuma and his attorney, Michael Hulley.

The search-and-seizure warrants were executed in August 2005 at properties belonging to Zuma, and at Hulley's Durban office. The high court declared the five search warrants invalid, and the searches pursuant to them unlawful.

Judgment was also expected on the appeal against the Johannesburg High Court decision that declared a search-and-seizure warrant served on Julie Mahomed as unlawful.

Mahomed was Zuma's attorney from time to time, and was the author of a loan agreement that came under scrutiny during the trial of Zuma's former financial adviser, Schabir Shaik.

The appeals court was also expected to deliver judgment in Zuma's and Thint's appeal against an application by the National Director of Public Prosecutions to get original documents from Mauritius related to investigations against them. - Sapa

With acknowledgements to The Mercury.