Today, the High Court in Pretoria was due to hear the matter of Democratic Alliance v The President of South Africa and Others. The Court agreed to hear the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) as joint amicus curiae (friends of the court). The matter was however settled between […]
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and Equal Education Law Centre (EELC) welcome the judgment handed down by the South African Constitutional Court in the matter of BlindSA v Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition on 21 September 2022. In a unanimous decision, the Court confirmed a Gauteng High Court order declaring the Copyright Act […]
The ICJ and other human rights groups present this application in response to the Co-Investigating Judges’ Order of 28 July 2009, which was appealed against on 11 September. (more…)
The ICJ and other human rights groups intervened as a third party in the case of Bayatyan v Armenia, concerning the right of conscientious objectors not to perform compulsory military service. (more…)
The ICJ and other human rights groups submitted an intervention in Schalk & Kopf v. Austria case. (more…)
=The Supreme Court of the Philippines granted Ang Ladlad’s petition for accreditation to join the upcoming May elections. The ICJ had submitted an amicus curiae in this case. (more…)
