For once, the small guy prevailed against the lawyered-up corporation, but it appears Makate only won a battle, not the war.
The Constitutional Court had a Zoom hearing recently, dealing with the state’s obligation to recognise Muslim marriages. One lawyer’s “ninja” comment is now being scrutinised.
In a final attempt to avoid prison, Zuma’s legal team will file court papers at the Constitutional Court today.
Via the Jacob G Zuma Foundation, the former president has lambasted the ConCourt ruling, adding that the Zondo Commission has been “transformed into a slaughterhouse”.
Jacob Zuma has been found guilty of contempt of court, and sentenced to 15 months imprisonment by the Constitutional Court.
Jane Bwanya has approached the Constitutional Court to change laws that don’t allow people in opposite-sex life partnerships the same inheritance rights as married couples.
The former president has hit back at last week’s Constitutional Court ruling that he has to appear before the Zondo Commission, likening his treatment to that which he received at the hands of the apartheid government.
Looks like you can no longer give your toddler a quick whack when they’re screaming for sweets in the grocery store.
Despite the ConCourt ruling last month, which decriminalised the personal and private use of dagga, arrests are still taking place.
Yesterday, the Constitutional Court ruled in favour of the legalisation of marijuana use in the private space. Before you light up, here’s what you need to know.
Zim’s land reform is firing back at the country as efforts are being made to give back to the farmers who were dispossessed on unfair terms.
Bheki Cele – don’t we just love him in the news… Follow the next of his antics as he heads to the constitutional court, and keeps the papers full of humour and hilarity.
Today in the Constitutional Court Auction Alliance won a long running case against the Estate Agency Affairs Board. The Constitutional Court has now confirmed a previous order of the Western Cape High Court which declared sections of the Estate Agency Affairs Act and the Financial Intelligence Centre Act as unconstitutional and invalid. Auction Alliance’s legal council, […]
I wrote yesterday about how depressed I was about the apparent lack of the rule of law in our fair land. Well today I am feeling a little better. The reason: The constitutional court has said that President Jacob Zuma’s decision to extend Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo’s term of office is unconstitutional.