Legal Articles and Guides

It may not be as advisable to drive a wedge between children and their parents as the Department of Health appears to believe. Caution should be exercised in providing medical treatment to children and when this is proposed without parental participation or consent, it must be understood that the children require special assistance to make informed decisions. Without proper safeguards there are potentially far-reaching legal consequences for implementing this policy.

The question of whether it is possible – using the paradigm of the indigenous customs of Zulu law – to institute a private property title regime has been answered in the affirmative in the recent KZN High Court (Pietermaritzburg) judgment in Council for the Advancement of the SA Constitution v Ingonyama Trust.

SA universities have entered the contested discourse of whether to mandate the Covid-19 vaccine for the safe return of students and staff to campuses or not.

The Constitutional Court on Friday confirmed a High Court order declaring section 13(7)(c) of the South African Police Service Act unconstitutional in a victory for residents of derelict buildings in inner Johannesburg who endured warrantless raids apparently aimed at flushing out illegal foreigners, says a Mail & Guardian report.

Section27 is adding its voice to a pending court application to ensure safe infrastructure at Gauteng schools after the death of a learner in 2017.

‘I believe it is high time that people like Gabriella Johnson and the nameless owner of the property who discriminated against Pol Osei are prosecuted in accordance with the Rental Housing Act and given harsh sentences, including a period of imprisonment. This might sound harsh, but in the absence of serious consequences, racists landowners and estate agents will continue to cling to the myth that they are doing nothing wrong.’

The DA and student organisation StudentePlein have taken their battle with Stellenbosch University to court over the institution's language policy, reports Polity.

The Zimbabwean Exemption Permit Holders Association, representing about 250 000 Zimbabweans in SA, has asked the Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) to declare them permanent residents, as their permits expire next month.

The Police Ministry is relentless in its drawn-out bid to have Fidelity Security Services’ 700 guns with expired licences surrendered for destruction.

The ‘right to die’ test case has been stalling for several months due to a dispute about the payment of transcription costs, Die Burger reports.

In what a Cape Times report calls a precedent-setting judgment, the Western Cape High Court has reviewed and set aside a Wynberg Magistrate's Court decision that the charge sheet against the accused in the country's oldest sexual abuse case to go to trial, be amended.

An Clover employee has failed in his bid to be reinstated after being dismissed for a Facebook posting in which he said all white people should be killed, reports News 24.

Private hospital groups Mediclinic and Life Healthcare have introduced Covid-19 vaccination policies for staff and service providers, joining a steadily growing number of JSE-listed companies that have followed the lead of life and health insurer Discovery.

The Western Cape High Court has dismissed an urgent application brought by the City of Cape Town requesting that Judge Rosheni Allie recuse herself on grounds that she could be biased.

A recent High Court judgment has confirmed that you will lose your South African citizenship if you apply for citizenship of any other country without prior Ministerial permission.