The Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) has ordered WhatsApp and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, to permanently shut down channels publishing private and pornographic material involving SA schoolchildren. The Digital Law Company last night launched urgent legal action to compel Meta to ... Read More
Repeated insults with the use of profane and demeaning language during a salary dispute with a colleague resulted in a line manager being slapped with a protection against harassment order, which he now tried to overturn, stating that his language ... Read More
Two sections of the Constitution will come into sharp focus after President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to appoint Professor Firoz Cachalia as Acting Police Minister. The MKP has signalled its intention to table a motion of no-confidence in Ramaphosa. Cachalia has ... Read More
The Chairs of Parliament’s Police and Justice & Constitutional Development Committees, Ian Cameron, and Xola Nqola, have noted the announcement by President Cyril Ramaphosa to establish a Commission of Inquiry on allegations made by the SAPS KZN Provincial Commissioner, General ... Read More
Labour Court (Cape Town) SAPS v Safety and Security Sectoral Bargaining Council and Others Judgment: 11 July 2025 Keywords: Reinstatement of review application sought – Discretionary power exercised with circumspection – Exceptional circumstances required due to constitutional rights – Delay ... Read More
Labour Court (Cape Town): Solidarity obo Burger v SAPS and Others Judgment: 9 July 2025 Keywords: Employment law – Failure to promote – Employment equity – Review of arbitration award – Applicant scoring highest in interview but not appointed due ... Read More
Western Cape High Court: SA Legal Practice Council v Beukman Judgment: 11 July 2025 Keywords: Legal practitioners – Striking from roll – Misappropriation of trust funds – Legal Practice Council disciplinary proceedings – Failure to account for client funds – ... Read More
The mother of 11-year-old Jayden-Lee Meek yesterday appeared in the Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court in connection with his killing. Tiffany Meek is charged with his murder, defeating the ends of justice, crimen injuria, and attempting to obstruct the administration of justice ... Read More
After nearly two years behind bars, alleged 28s gang leader Ralph Stanfield, his wife Nicole Johnson and 13 co-accused will finally head to the Western Cape High Court where a pre-trial will be held, reports News24. They have been charged ... Read More
As the Western Cape hailed the confiscation of 23 firearms, including 13 in Mitchell’s Plain, amid gang violence, Pagad fugitive Faizel Felix, who evaded authorities for years, has been arrested. The Cape Argus reports that Felix was accused of being ... Read More
Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge’s ‘contemptuous’ dismissal of court secretary Andiswa Mengo’s complaint against him and his invocation of ‘cultural norms’ to justify alleged sexual misconduct are an affront not only to women but to the integrity of the ... Read More
The assertion that judges lack democratic legitimacy due to their unelected status is conceptually and constitutionally fallacious. Democratic legitimacy is neither singular nor reducible to electoral representation. Rather, any mature constitutional democracy is co-constituted by the legislature and the judiciary ... Read More
Victims of state violence won important victories last week in SA and in Kenya. In SA, the family of student leader Caiphus Nyoka, murdered by apartheid secret police in 1987, said they felt some closure after a court sentenced one ... Read More
The Katse Dam, the largest in the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) and a key water source for the Vaal Dam, which provides all of Johannesburg’s drinking water, is at the centre of a constitutional case to be heard by ... Read More
The Mozambican authorities on Friday detained a man wanted for fraud and money laundering at Maputo International Airport, reports the Club of Mozambique. According to a report in the independent daily ‘O Pais’, the man, Hussen Gulam, was arrested when ... Read More
The Government of Ghana’s efforts to haul in former Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, to account for his stewardship in the Nana Akufo-Addo-led administration, has received a boost following indications by sources at the US Department of Justice and the FBI ... Read More
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit has overturned plea agreements for three Guantánamo detainees accused of conspiring in the 9/11 attacks, potentially reopening the path to capital punishment. A Jurist report notes that in a 2-1 ... Read More
The High Court in England and Wales has ruled that it would be disproportionate to force Ludgate House Limited (LHL) to demolish parts of its newly built 19-storey Arbor office building in Central London, despite the structure interfering with neighbouring ... Read More
A $3bn inheritance dispute is unfolding in a Hong Kong court involving Kelly Zong, heiress to the Chinese beverage giant Wahaha, and three individuals claiming to be her half-siblings. A Sydney Morning Herald report notes that Jacky, Jessie and Jerry ... Read More
