Legal Articles and Guides

The Western Cape High Court has upheld the eviction of hundreds of farm dwellers from Klein Akker, Kraaifontein. Acting Judge Sievers ruled that the City of Cape Town must ‘make available within 24 hours of this order, temporary emergency shelter in the form of land and emergency housing kits at the emergency housing site known as Kampies, Philippi’.

The Constitutional Court confirmed yesterday that section 1 of the Land Affairs General Amendment Act and section 25A of the Upgrading Act was inconsistent with the Constitution and invalid.

The Minister of Police has been ordered by the Constitutional Court to pay R300 000 in damages plus costs in a wrongful arrest case that dates back to 2012, notes News24.

The displaying of SA's apartheid-era flag has been ruled as constituting 'hate speech, discrimination and harassment'.

The parliamentary process to confirm or revoke President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to dismiss two senior NPA officials has been delayed for at least a month following an agreement reached in the Western Cape High Court yesterday, says a Business Day report.

Legal experts have questioned an interdict granted to a group of Eastern Cape farmers, saying it unjustifiably limits their farm workers’ constitutional right to speak out against alleged poor treatment.

In his last Constitutional Court judgment, Justice Edwin Cameron, who retired yesterday, ruled in favour of labour tenants who have been trying for more than 22 years to lay claim to a portion of SA's most expensive and prestigious school, Hilton College, in the KZN midlands.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed into law the controversial National Credit Amendment Bill which is geared to provide relief to over-indebted consumers, according to a Fin24 report.

More than 50 000 South Africans don’t want the government to pass the Children’s Act Amendment Bill, which could spell the end of private adoptions, says a Times Select report.

Stellenbosch University amended its language policy due to political pressure and not for practical reasons, the lobby group Gelyke Kanse/Equal Opportunities claims in papers before the Constitutional Court.

In a recent ruling which broadens access to justice for the wider population, a third High Court has told banks they are abusing the legal process by bypassing Magistrate's Courts and taking bad-debt cases straight to a judge.

Residents of the Winnie Mandela informal settlement in Ekurhuleni are seeking constitutional damages from the local municipality for its failure to build them RDP houses after those allocated to them were illegally occupied by others.

The Council for the Advancement of the SA Constitution (Casac) is ready for a tough battle when it takes on the Ingonyama Trust over rent paid by people living on trust land.

A full Bench of the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) has reserved judgment in a case that will determine how they deal with applications from consumers who want to get out of debt review before they have been able to pay off all their debts.

Zephany Nurse (22), who was stolen from a hospital in Cape Town as a newborn and reunited with her biological parents when she was 17, has applied to the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) for the scrapping of an interim interdict protecting her identity, it was reported at the weekend.