Vusi Pikoli's legal team is in the process of filing papers in the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday afternoon after they heard that Parliament officially removed him as national prosecutions chief.

"The papers have been signed and there is somebody driving to Pretoria," said Pikoli's attorney Aslam Moosajee.

The National Council of Provinces sealed Pikoli's fate when members voted in favour of a report by a parliamentary review committee that approved the dismissal, less than a week after the National Assembly did so.

The process was an endorsement of President Kgalema Motlanthe's recommendation that he be fired on the grounds that he did not fully appreciate security matters, following an inquiry into his fitness to hold office.

The inquiry said it could not find evidence to support that he was not fit to do so, but raised the security question.

Moosajee said the court papers would not be made public immediately by himself, as a courtesy to Motlanthe, who would need time to study them.

Their case would argue that his dismissal violates the Constitutional guarantee of prosecutorial independence and that there were various irregularities with his dismissal.