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The Constitutional Court's apparent refusal to release Jacob Zuma pending its decision on whether to rescind its imprisonment order is an ‘egregious violation’ of international law, the former President's lawyers said in court papers lodged on Friday.

Child rapist Nicholas Ninow, also known as the ‘Dros rapist’, has been granted leave by the SCA to appeal his conviction and sentence.

The Constitutional Court has asked the parties involved in former President Jacob Zuma's rescission application against its judgment jailing him for contempt of court to make submissions on whether it is obliged to consider a UN covenant on civil and political rights.

The SCA has ruled against a woman who unilaterally removed three children, of whom she had shared custody with her former husband, from Thailand and brought them to SA in December 2019.

The Constitutional Court has reserved judgment in the application by the Women's Legal Centre Trust to provide finality on the state's obligation to recognise Muslim marriages as ordered by the SCA last year.

The DA has written to the Human Rights Commission (HRC) asking it to intervene in the march by the EFF in Phoenix today (Thursday), saying there were concerns that the situation would escalate.

A transgender woman who was subjected to a humiliating genital test by members of her church to check whether she was ‘a real woman’ has been awarded R600 000 in damages by the Equality Court.

After a long struggle spanning more than 20 years, Muslim marriages may finally be recognised under common law as the Constitutional Court will today hear the application brought by the Women’s Legal Centre Trust (WLC), to confirm an order made in December by the SCA which declared the Marriage Act and the Divorce Act to be inconsistent with sections of the Constitution.

Unisa students have launched an online petition demanding the institution gives them their certificates.

The judge who ordered the removal of farmers who had occupied government farms in the North West since 2019 misapplied himself when he made findings not supported by any evidence presented in court.

We’ve all had them – noisy neighbours whose dogs bark incessantly, whose late-night parties leave everyone sleep-deprived, whose businesses make working from home and relaxing in the garden an impossibility.

Richard Spoor Attorneys has launched an application at the Financial Services Tribunal to review the Prudential Authority’s decision to allow Constantia Insurance to cancel more than 5 000 life policies after it converted its licence from a short-term to a non-life insurer due to changes in legislation.

Three Zimbabwe-born law graduates, who cannot practise because they are not ‘permanent residents’ or SA citizens, have launched a constitutional challenge to the Legal Practice Act (LPA), according to legal writer Tania Broughton in a GroundUp report.

An Eastern Cape man is seeking to have the courts bar the use of the Springbok emblem, arguing it is an illegal and gratuitous display of an apartheid symbol.

A judge has shot down a company’s insistence that a family with a boy (16) in matric should be evicted from its farm now before the end of the school year.