The Judicial Service Commission?s Constitutional Court hearings have been plunged into darkness after being hit by a power cut.

Supreme Court of Appeal Judge Mandisa Maya is before the commissioners discussing her life history.

Maya was talking about her life's journey from the rural Eastern Cape to Bloemfontein when the lights went out.

She admitted to Patricia de Lille there were some aspects of her life that should change.

,p> The hearing is limping along with just one microphone for the record while people try to avoid making jokes about the limits of judicial power.