The party’s bid to seek censure for former judge Zak Yacoob, for comments made about President Jacob Zuma’s rape trial, appears to have stalled.
Access to justice for all, particularly the impecunious, is a central requirement of the constitutional idea that animates our democracy.
Joe Slovo residents who travelled to the Constitutional Court for their case were in a sombre mood after hearing argument. Pearlie Joubert reports.
After the Constitutional Court judgements in the Clicks case, in which the majority set aside regulations dealing with pricing and dispensing of medicine, legal commentators raised the question as to whether a significant minority of the court — who appeared to adopt a more pro-executive position — would influence the future direction of the court.