"Absa is a public listed company whose shareholders include an array of investors, from ordinary workers whose pension contributions are invested on their behalf by asset managers to ordinary unemployed poor citizens whose funeral policy insurance is invested or banked with the company, to high net worth individuals and institutional investors. "We are looking forward to proceeding with the review application to allow the full ventilation of the matter and the scrutiny of the conduct of Ms Lucas-Bull and her board in this regard," says Pityana. Absa's response Asked to respond to the judgment and Pityana's statement, Absa Group says it is considering the 10 May judgment of the Pretoria High Court relating to the applicability of Rule 53.