South Africa-Children’s Act (2005)
South Africa-Children’s Act-2005-engMinister of Home Affairs and Another v. Fourie and Another; Lesbian and Gay Equality Project and Eighteen Others v. Minister of Home Affairs and Others, Constitutional Court of South Africa (1 December 2005)
Procedural Posture Two separate constitutional challenges to the common law and statutory definitions of marriage in South Africa were consolidated. In the first case (a complaint that South African common law unconstitutionally excluded same-sex marriage), the South...South Africa set to adopt anti-terrorism bill
After a controversial drafting process, the South African parliament has approved the country’s draft anti-terrorism law, The Protection of Constitutional Democracy Against Terrorist and Related Activities Bill. Once signed by the President the bill will be...
Comments at the dinner of the Second World Bar Conference at Cape Town on 12 April 2004
Summary: Dinner speech given to the World Bar conference held in Cape Town by the Chief Justice of South Africa Arthur Chaskalson, President of the ICJ.
Comments at the dinner of the Second World Bar Conference at Cape Town on 12 April 2004 [full text, PDF]
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