Programme News
23 August 2011
(Press release)
22 AUGUST 2011
The Registrar of the Constitutional Court of South Africa has informed us that the Court will hand down its judgment on Tuesday 23 August 2011 at 10:00am in Johannesburg.
The Moutse community approached the court in 2008 in order to challenge the Constitution 12th Amendment Act of 2005 which moved the community from Mpumalanga province to Limpopo province. The...
17 August 2011
(News)
Sowetan : An Act protecting children's rights might be changed to give parents and caregivers more voice before children are removed from their care. The Constitutional Court heard yesterday that the Act infringed on the right of the child to family care or parental care. Ann Skelton, of the Centre for Child Law at the University of Pretoria, said parents and caregivers had to be interviewed...
15 August 2011
(News)
IOL In what can be hailed as a landmark judgment for hawkers – who are harassed by municipalities in spite of court orders preventing them from doing so – a judge has ordered that a mayor and her municipality pay hefty fines. The municipality also has to pay each hawker R500 in compensation.
The order was given last week by the Mafikeng High Court against the Rustenburg...
10 August 2011
(News)
05 August 2011 | ILSE DE LANGE
JOHANNESBURG - A North Gauteng High Court judge yesterday ordered the Steve Biko Hospital in Pretoria to immediately recommence treatment of a four-year-old Zimbabwean girl, who is critically ill with a malignant brain tumour. The little girl’s father went to court with the help of Lawyers for Human Rights after the hospital told him his daughter’s...
10 August 2011
(News)
Aug 8, 2011 | KHETHIWE CHELEMU
In what could be a landmark case, 19 Ethiopian men have taken Minister of Home Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to court, claiming her department illegally arrested them.
In court papers filed in the Johannesburg High Court, the men claim that the Department of Foreign Affairs acted unlawfully by arresting them hours after they arrived in the city on June 26 and by...
9 July 2011
(Press release)
LHR seeks to fill the following vacancies:
Attorney: Pretoria
The Refugee and Migrant Rights Programme seeks a self-motivated admitted attorney with an interest in constitutional and public interest litigation. Good writing and research skills are essential. High Court litigation experience would be an advantage. This is an opportunity to get exposure to international law, work with United...
21 June 2011
(Press release)
In advance of the African Union (AU) summit which will take place from 23 June-1 July 2011, more than 115 civil society organisations wrote a short paper with observations and recommendations for African states parties of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on issues likely to arise at the summit regarding the ICC. This paper emphasizes the strong support for the ICC by African...
25 May 2011
(News)
Johannesburg - Round two of a battle by two Batswana to avoid the death penalty in their country continued in the Johannesburg High Court on Tuesday.The extradition laws and constitutions of Botswana and South Africa were pitted against each other. Also, the extradition treaty the two countries have signed, came into focus.
The South African Constitution gives emphasis to human rights and...
24 May 2011
(News)
The City of Cape Town’s Anti-Land Invasion Unit established to prevent the illegal occupation of city and provincial land, is acting unlawfully says Lawyers for Human Rights.
LHR lawyer Sheldon Magardie said the unit demolished structures without a court order and he was planning to approach the Cape High Court for an interdict to prevent the city from doing so.
“In our view, the city...
22 May 2011
(Press release)
The South Gauteng High Court will hear submissions from Lawyers for Human Rights over the next two days (23 and 24 May 2011) in the cases of Tsebe v Minister of Home Affairs and others and Phale v Minister of Home Affairs and Others regarding the lawfulness of an extradition to a country which still practices the death penalty, in this case Botswana.
In both of these cases, the...