HOW should a judge respond when discriminatory aspects of customary law conflict with the constitution? Earlier this month Judge Oagile Dingake of the high court in Gaberone, Botswana, declared his country’s adoption laws unconstitutional for just this reason, in a...
IT could be one of the smallest damages awards made by a high court in recent times, but the R775 plus interest ordered by Judge Dhaya Pillay represents an enormous victory for street traders everywhere in South Africa. Pillay, sitting …Share this:Click to...
IN a landmark judgment throwing down the gauntlet to government departments that refuse to obey court orders, the high court has found a municipal manager guilty of contempt of court and sentenced him to six months in jail. The judgment …Share this:Click to...
TAKE a drought, an empty dam and 20 missing buffalo and it promises to be a good legal story. Add former Springbok centre Hennie le Roux into the mix and there’s a ruck in the making. He’s the owner of …Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new...
WHEN three judges of a top court interpreted the law so it gives bizarre benefits to an accused in gang rape trials their unreported decision went almost unnoticed. But this week saw a full court of the high court in …Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens...
A MAJOR municipality has been warned that if it doesn’t improve the way it deals with tenders the courts may step in and award the tender to the company that should have won if proper procedures had been followed. The …Share this:Click to share on Twitter...
