QUOTES

 

‘By shifting responsibility for refugees, reducing the UK's courts' ability to scrutinise removal decisions, restricting access to legal remedies in the UK and limiting the scope of domestic and international human rights protections for a specific group of people, this new legislation seriously hinders the rule of law in the UK and sets a perilous precedent globally.’

– Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, following the UK Parliament's passage of the ‘Safety of Rwanda’ Bill

 

‘Imprisonment, the deprivation of liberty is the punishment. Why must the right to vote be removed? It’s a popular position, but it’s not a constitutional one.’

– Professor Lukas Muntingh of the Dullah Omar Institute at the University of the Western Cape on the right of prisoners to vote

 

‘The grant of the right to appeal is simply a recognition by the High Court that an appeal to another court is a viable option for the claimants to follow in the SA legal process. It does not undermine the High Court decision that dismissed the application in December 2023. As Anglo American has stated throughout, it has every sympathy for the situation in Kabwe, but is not responsible for it. Anglo American has stated from the outset that this claim is entirely misconceived.’

– Anglo American, which says it will oppose any appeal that may follow in the class-action lawsuit application brought by human rights lawyers, on behalf of residents in the Zambian town of Kabwe. The matter relates to a class action brought against Anglo American SA by law firms Leigh Day and Mbuyisa Moleele, on behalf of Zambian claimants in respect of the effects of lead pollution in the town.