WHEN the high court awarded street trader John Mpini Makwicana damages of R775 plus costs and interest against one of South Africa’s biggest municipalities it seemed like a done deal: he would immediately be recompensed for the losses the municipality …Share...
Regulations “a mess” – top child law experts Government attempts to justify onerous new visa regulations for tourists entering to South Africa as well as local parents with children leaving the country have been trashed by a specialist legal agency …Share...
* This is the first of a new series of columns called A Matter of Justice, written for LegalBriefs, a South African daily online legal interest newspaper WHEN a judge, writing in July 2015, says the treatment of an individual …Share this:Click to share on...
When the South African government facilitated the departure of Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir last week it did so in flagrant defiance of a high court order that he not be allowed to leave the country. It’s no exaggeration to say …Share this:Click to share on...
* This column appeared on Thursday 25 June in the morning titles of the Independent group of newspaper, where I have been writing a regular feature for the last six years. IN the middle of November 2009 I wrote my …Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in...
IT’S finally official: adultery is no longer part of South African law and a “wronged spouse” may no longer sue for damages. A unanimous decision by the judges of the Constitutional Court delivered today says that marriage is based on …Share this:Click to share...
