The Government vs the Judiciary

I guess that others have had the same thought upon reading headlines in this country, almost on a daily basis, but I thought to throw it out there for people to respond to. Perhaps there are legal minds out there willing to put my mind at rest by filling me in.

Why, when a court makes a decision involving government employees, or cadres as is usually the case, is the decision ALWAYS appealed if the employee or cadre, or indeed government itself, loses the case?

To my mind there can only be 2 reasons:

Firstly, the government believes that the court has made the incorrect decision, as can be the case, and thus appeals, as is its right.

When however this is always the case then it is clear that the government doesn’t respect the rule of law, is undermining the judiciary on an on-going basis and this should be a concern for all, especially for the legal fraternity.

Surely in at least 95% of the cases the decision of the court must be correct, unless the court itself is not qualified or is otherwise inhibited from making correct decisions. If this is the case then we should all again be concerned, as should be the legal fraternity.

The second reason can only be that the government believes that it has an endless supply of money to spend in courts, courtesy of us tax payers who pay the legal bills which are never of little consequence.

If this is the case then we should again all be seriously worried about what is happening in our government, whether it is really serious about fighting corruption and putting some effort into cost cutting or whether this is again just hot air being spouted.