NEXT time I read of a woman murdered by a relative, close friend or partner, I won’t Tweet my outrage or FB friends moaning about the “scourge” of femicide. Instead, I will think carefully about whether I might have looked …Share this: Share on X (Opens in new...
IT’S New Year resolution season and if lawyers and judges are, like the rest of us, contemplating what improvements to make in 2017, I have a suggestion. Why doesn’t the South African legal community, from judges down, band together to …Share this: Share on X...
WHEN Ramatharee Pather and her lawyers launched a claim against Gauteng’s MEC for health, Qedani Mahlangu, the last thing they would have expected was an answer from the state re-writing legal history. Pather’s action relates to what she alleges was …Share...
A trying month so far for justice in Namibia, with a four-fold fiasco in the courts that has left egg on the face of the judiciary as well as the country’s top anti-corruption agency. Not to mention a judgment showing …Share this: Share on X (Opens in new...
FROM the very first paragraph it’s clear this is no ordinary case. The opening remarks of acting labour court judge Sean Snyman, sitting in Johannesburg, were these: “This matter was born out of a tragic event, which, instead of being …Share this: Share on X...
INITIALLY it seems strange perhaps: a child rape case combined with a dismissal dispute at the Labour Court. Yet it has resulted in a landmark decision that could benefit many vulnerable witnesses in future. The case concerns a young woman, …Share this: Share...
