GOSA legal cover total success!

**Paul** · 12-10-2016, 08:28

Friday last week saw our legal cover put to its first test.

A GOSA Diamond Member was conducting training for a learner driver on the streets of the West Rand when another road user who may have been inconvenienced by the learner driver forced them off the road.

The assailant driver and a passenger got out of their car and approached our member and his student (our member could not effect an escape since the learner was driving the car). Our member drew his firearm, and held it next to his leg, warning off the assailants. The assailants hurried back to their car and sped off to report our member (first for pointing a firearm, and then, bizarrely, for trying to rob them of their motor vehicle). It is important to note that CPF members who were on scene bore out our member's version (as did his driving student).

JMPD refused to consider our member's version of events and arrested our member. They transported him to Roodepoort SAPS where the SAPS members similarly refused to consider our member's version.

GOSA appointed attorneys who were on scene within an hour and secured our member's release on police bail later that night. The attorneys prepared a compelling argument to present to the Senior State Prosecutor on Monday resulting in a decision of nolle prosecui.

GOSA will be taking two main steps now:

a) to use this as a case study and object lesson for the JMPD and the SAPS to avoid their needless damaging actions in future, and

b) recovering our damages from said parties (where applicable) to drive the lesson home.

PS. we have already paid the lawyers on their invoice.

**Stealth-Glock19** · 12-10-2016, 08:31

Well done Gosa. Proud to be a member

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**kurly** · 12-10-2016, 08:32

**Moomin** · 12-10-2016, 08:37

Well done GOSA!

**phant1m** · 12-10-2016, 08:38

Guess its time for me to consider upgrading to a higher plan :D.

**Brendank** · 12-10-2016, 08:39

Yeeha!! Fantastic!!

**Proudprado** · 12-10-2016, 08:43

I agree, well done.

**Gunservant** · 12-10-2016, 08:45

I love it when things work the way they are designed to. It brings a tear to the eye.

**WILDCARD** · 12-10-2016, 08:49

Well done!

I will also be joining very soon.

**Knoffel** · 12-10-2016, 08:51

Awesome guys!
Although a win, it's a real worry that there are those people (some of them, not all of them of course) who refuse to listen to the other side of the story - in this case that of your client.