Welcome to the inaugural blog of GLM on our revamped website. This being my primary speciality, this biweekly blog will focus on developments in the field of public law.
At its most basic, public law concerns the relationship between the government (and here I include not only the three tiers of government but also the myriad of administrative and regulatory bodies that form part of the state machinery) and the governed.
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I thought of writing about the topical decision of the Supreme Court of Appeal (“the SCA”) in Democratic Alliance v The Acting National Director of Public Prosecutions, delivered on 20 March 2012.
However, because I have undertaken to steer clear of the politics and because the case’s “long and troubled history” can be depressing, I have instead decided to discuss a more uplifting legal development – a judgment of the Constitutional Court (“the CC”) in Maphango and Others v Aengus Lifestyle Properties (Pty) Ltd 2012 ZACC 2 delivered a few days earlier on 13 March 2012.The applicants in Mapha
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It has taken longer than I had thought to produce my third blog. The vagaries of running a practice with a large urgent court component unfortunately intervened.
It is in that part of my practice – the urgent motion court – that I found the inspiration for this blog. While everyone was fixated on the epic fight over e-tolling, I was in an adjacent court as part of the team representing the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality in an urgent application brought by civil rights group Afriforum. In that application, Afriforum sought an order interdicting the City from implementing its decision to rena
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