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02/08/2022

South Africa: Regulatory authority’s bar on properly qualified non-citizen lawyers practising, merely because of citizenship, is an unjustifiable human rights violation

The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) are disappointed by the 2 August judgment of the South African Constitutional Court in the Relebohile Cecilia Rafoneke v Minister of Justice and Correctional Services (Rafoneke) case, which the Court heard together with the Bruce Chakanyuka & Others v Minister of Justice and […]

24/02/2022

South Africa: ICJ makes submissions to the Constitutional Court on the human rights compatibility of prohibiting non-citizen lawyers from practising in South Africa

Today, the ICJ will present oral arguments in a constitutional challenge to a provision of the Legal Practice Act before the Constitutional Court. The provision prohibits otherwise qualified lawyers from practising law in South Africa merely because they are not South African citizens or permanent residents. (more…)

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South Africa: ICJ makes submissions to the Constitutional Court on the human rights compatibility of prohibiting non-citizen lawyers from practising in South Africa

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