Despite fears that backdated claims by domestic workers may cripple the beleaguered Compensation Fund, the labour department said it will honour its legal obligations
The aspirant prosecutors programme, on hold for years because of lack of funds, has started up again, creating a pool of future prosecutors
But his last minute affidavit does not resolve the bigger legal dispute between the South African Revenue Service and the public protector
Justice Chris Jafta says Rica legislation is one of the ‘worst drafted’ laws he has ever seen
The Trespass and Riotous Assemblies Acts can criminalise innocent people
While the ANC in Parliament found itself defending the presence of FW de Klerk at the State of the Nation address last week, the government was also — in court this time — defending an apartheid-era law
Draft regulations do not allow for commercial cultivation or sale, but policy could change this
The former DA leader says his new political movement can bring change to South Africa
The Western Cape Judge President has made a counter-complaint against his deputy and responded to her allegation
The past eight months were perhaps the most strange and unsettling in the country’s modern history. Reporting on it was tough, but I persevered— and so does Malawi
The case between the president and Busisiwe Mkhwebane has also drawn in the national director of public prosecutions and the Financial Intelligence Centre
An apartheid law that dispossessed black women of the assets accrued during their marriages has finally been scrapped after a Pinetown pensioner, facing impoverishment, went to court
It will take the end of patriarchy and an efficient justice system to jail more offenders
But the new complaint against the Western Cape judge president is also unprecedented
Deputy Judge President Patricia Goliath accuses Hlophe of attempting to influence her to allocate the case to judges he perceived as ‘favourably disposed’ to former president Jacob Zuma
Now these important policy developments must be implemented
Private wills — as opposed to charitable trusts — are considered sacrosanct, not only in South Africa but the world over. As long as a person is of “sound mind” and not financially responsible for any minor children, they are legally entitled to pass on their assets to whoever they please and can disinherit on […]
The main judgment of acting judge Rammaka Mathopo starkly exposes the irrationality, rooted in patriarchy
Even a person who has not ‘instrumentally’ been involved can now be tried for the crime
A key negotiator was gunned down minutes after attending talks with Premier
The court found that the law’s unequal treatment of child accused and child witnesses as well as child victims was unconstitutional.
The retired Constitutional Court judge is the new inspector of prisons and he argues that SA’s courts should stop filling them up
During the hearing the justices of the ConCourt grappled with some of the legal questions posed by its earlier decision in the infamous Nkandla case
Children displaying aberrant behaviour have often been traumatised and require counselling
"We have a painful and shameful history of widespread and institutionalised violence."
September 18: the day dagga was decriminalised and the day that the ConCourt reconfirmed beating a child is illegal
The Nelson Mandela Foundation said in court papers that the high court got it wrong in a number of respects
The recently appointed Constitutional Court judge firmly believes in the power of listening
Banks aren’t following procedure in selling the primary dwellings of people whose properties are in foreclosure. But changes to the rules brings hope
The president says a decision by the Constitutional Court will put an end to a “vituperative” public debate
Scathing Constitutional Court judgment bemoans land reform department’s inability to get job done in time
Twenty-five years on from our first democratic election, the need for role models for young queer people is felt now more than ever