Legal Articles and Guides

Residents of Woodstock’s Bromwell Street, who have waged an eight-year legal battle to stop them from being evicted from the houses they, and generations before them, have always called home, celebrated after the Constitutional Court barred their eviction until the City of Cape Town has developed a new housing programme, incorporating transitional housing.

The police’s second attempt to retain Paterson businessman Jacques Verwey’s legal firearms has failed, and they must now comply with a court order to return his guns as soon as possible.

It is unreasonable for illegal miners in Stilfontein to expect medical treatment and food to be brought to them while they remain underground to avoid arrest — and none of them have complained about their constitutional rights being violated, the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) heard yesterday.

The Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) has recognised property as a family home, and thus protected the rights of a family who was facing possible eviction.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has referred a Bill that could make published work more accessible for the blind or visually impaired to the Constitutional Court, reports The Citizen.

The African Transformation Movement (ATM) has criticised Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber for failing to act against Phil Craig, leader of the Cape Independence Advocacy Group (Ciag).

Two men have been given the green light to use the surnames of their wives after Free State High Court (Bloemfontein) Judge Joseph Mhlambi overturned the provisions of an outdated law which prohibited this.

Members of the public have less than 30 days to submit their appeals on why their identity documents have been wrongfully blocked, depriving them of accessing key governmental and other services.

A widow had to turn to the Limpopo High Court (Polokwane) to obtain permission for her daughter (16) to travel abroad to represent her school, after the child’s father died in April in Brazil and was unable to give his go-ahead.

Getting your wife pregnant before being arrested is not an automatic get out of jail free card, a judge said in refusing an accused bail.

The battle between Equal Education and the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) over school admissions continues in the Western Cape High Court, says a Weekend Argus report.

In what a Business Day report calls a landmark judgment, the SCA has found in favour of two Burundi asylum seekers whose bid was refused by the Department of Home Affairs.

The Constitutional Court has given the trustees of the Goede Hoop Trust a tongue-lashing for having ‘improper motives’ and using farmworkers as a means to frustrate the execution of sale of a wine estate to recover money owed to Nedbank.  

National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula says she is willing to hand herself over to the police from today to effect her arrest over allegations of corruption and bribery.

A Mpumalanga family has been awarded R1m compensation by the Land Claims Court in a restitution claim for land currently used for timber operations dating back almost 20 years.