This is an edited version of the Inaugural Arthur Chaskalson Memorial Lecture delivered at the Equal Education Law Centre
More legislation will not protect women when the police cannot, researchers say, following the proclamation of amendments to gender-based violence laws
More than 20 organisations, concerned individuals sign an open letter to Ministers Barbara Creecy and Ebrahim Patel calling for integrated assessment of coal-based mega-project
The judge ruled that corporations should not be allowed to use the legal system against citizens and activists
Companies must behave like model democratic citizens if they are to earn and retain society’s social licence to operate
Activists argue that the Australian company suing them is using the courts to silence criticism and so abusing the legal system. The law should change to stop these types of suits
An Australian mining company is suing three attorneys and activists for defamation. But the defendant’s attorneys argue that this a strategic lawsuit against public participation
Inspectorate finds serious overcrowding at ‘Sun City’ centre, putting inmates at risk of Covid-19
The judicial system alone and appealing to miscreants has not stopped attacks on women
Corporations and banks that aided the apartheid regime have not been brought to book, so they continue to act with impunity
The Sekhukhune district municipality does not have the money to provide water to all its residents
Female activists are at the forefront of claiming socioeconomic rights through the courts
CALS wants to "deal openly with reports of sexual harassment and so begin to make our spaces more supportive and safer"
There were small gains to be had by finding loopholes in the laws that bolstered apartheid
Men, usually bosses, prey on fresh young lawyers who need to do their articles to qualify
Residents who were about to be evicted from a private property in Berea have received more time to be relocated by the City of Johannesburg.
City of Jo’burg is scrambling to provide residents with accommodation after failing to meet a Constitutional Court order ordering it to house them.
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/ 11 September 2008
Incompetent prosecution often frustrates the intention of minimum sentencing legislation.
The relocation of people from two ”bad” inner-city buildings shows what is possible when the rights of the poor are considered, Cals says.
Forcibly installing prepayment water meters was ruled to be unconstitutional by the Johannesburg High Court, the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (Cals) said on Wednesday. Stuart Wilson, spokesperson for Cals, said the meters were found to infringe the constitutional rights of people to have access to sufficient water.
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/ 19 February 2008
The City of Johannesburg cannot evict inner-city tenants living in central Johannesburg unless adequate alternative accommodation is provided, the Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday. ”Potential homelessness must be considered by a city when it decides whether to evict people from buildings,” said the court.
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/ 11 September 2007
The Social Assistance Act unfairly discriminates against a group of men who are among the poorest of the poor in South Africa, the Pretoria High Court heard on Tuesday. The Act entitled men to apply for state old-age pensions, based on a needs test, when they reached the age of 65, but entitled women to start receiving the pension at the of 60.