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Businessman Dr Iqbal Survé is taking the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) to court over its raid on his company offices yesterday, a move he described as the result of clandestine meetings between state regulatory bodies and powerful politicians, aimed at intimidating him for political reasons, according to a report in the Cape Argus, one of the newspapers in his stable.

Taxpayers have to foot R1.9m in damages for a top Hawks sleuth’s heavy-handedness, says a TimesLIVE report. The saga initially played out at the offices of an Eastern Cape municipality six years ago and ended up in the Eastern Cape High Court (Grahamstown) this week.

The Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) has ordered that Mbalenhle Ntuli, an inmate at Johannesburg Medium C prison, be allowed to use his laptop without a modem in his single cell.

The state and the legal team of the only Fees Must Fall activist still behind bars, yesterday reached an agreement to find a date for a bail hearing within two weeks, but according to one of his lawyers he was badly advised by a previous legal team and shouldn’t be behind bars, notes Daily News.

As a landlord in dispute with your tenant you may well be tempted to avoid the delay and cost of litigation by taking your own eviction or enforcement action.

The government has noted it is to seek leave to appeal the landmark ruling forcing it to sell a farm to a 78-year-old land reform beneficiary rather than giving him 30-year lease, says Rapport.

The Labour Court in Johannesburg has quashed what would have been the biggest banking strike in 99 years, by ruling the planned protest action was unlawful.

Former Western Cape mayco member for Transport & Urban Development Brett Herron – now a member of the GOOD party – has launched an application to be admitted as a friend of the court in the case between the Department of Human Settlements and the City of Cape Town in the disputed Tafelberg property sale.

The Department of Correctional Services was found to have acted in a discriminatory manner and against the Constitution by not allowing Jade September to express herself as a trans woman in a men's jail, the Western Cape High Court ruled yesterday.

The Constitutional Court judgment on corporal punishment at home – Freedom of Religion SA v Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development and Others – is a decision that has the country on ‘tenterhooks and in heated conversation’.

More than a dozen attorneys and advocates lined up yesterday in the Eastern Cape High Court (Grahamstown) battle against Home Affairs and national and provincial education departments, in which an NGO and a school seek to give undocumented children in SA free access to basic education.

‘The decision by EFF leader Julius Malema to ban certain media organisations from covering EFF events or briefings directly implicates the proper functioning of the democracy and it is highly unlikely that the court will sanction the limitation of the right.’

Investigative journalism centre amaBhungane has successfully demolished sections of SA’s ‘Super Snooper’ law – the Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-Related Information Act (Rica), notes Daily News.

The Western Cape Department of Health has appealed to the Constitutional Court to overturn a Labour Court victory of 50 doctors that forced the department to pay them R28m in backdated scarce-skills allowances, says a Cape Argus report.

The Association of Lawyers for Afrikaans (VRA) is taking the Legal Practice Council (LPC) to court to review its decision that professional exams for candidate attorneys, notaries and conveyancers are in future to be written only in English, says Rapport.