Judgment: New owners of property are not liable for municipal debts incurred before transfer by previous owners (Jordaan)
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Official profile for the Constitutional Court of South Africa.
- (1/3) The Constitutional Court held that section 24(2)(b) and section 115 of the Legal Practice Act 28 of 2014 is not unconstitutional to the extent that it precludes persons who are neither citizens of or permanent residents in RSA from being enrolled as legal practitioners.
- (1/2) Judgment on Thursday, 1 July at 10h00: Did the President mislead Parliament in relation to the donations made to the CR17 campaign? Did the Public Protector have the scope to investigate the CR17 Campaign? (Public Protector and others v President of the RSA and others)
- Justice Edwin Cameron will retire from judicial service, and step down as a member of the Court, on Tuesday 20 August 2019. This is the twenty-fifth anniversary of his appointment as a Judge in August 1994.
- Judgment: Former President Jacob Zuma is guilty of the crime of contempt of court and is sentenced to an unsuspended period of 15 months’ imprisonment. (Secretary of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture v JG Zuma and Others)
- Judgment: A LL.B graduate from the Independent Institute of Education (Pty) Limited is eligible for admission and enrolment as a legal practitioner in terms of the Legal Practice Act (IIE v KZN Law Society)
- Judgment: The Constitutional Court did not make a rescindable error. The judgment and order against former President Zuma stand, and the application for rescission is dismissed with costs. (JG Zuma v Secretary of the Judicial Commission and Others)
- (1/2) Hearing on Monday, 12 July, at 09h00: Is there a legal basis on which the Constitutional Court can or should rescind or set aside its order that sentenced Mr Zuma to 15 months’ imprisonment for contempt of court?
- Judgment tomorrow 10am: Is a graduate who obtains an LL.B degree from a registered and accredited private higher education institution like the IIE's Varsity College eligible for admission as a legal practitioner in terms of the Legal Practice Act? (IIE v KZN Law Society)
- Judgment: s10 of the Births & Deaths Registration Act is unconstitutional. It differentiates between children born in and out of wedlock and unfairly limits the right of an unmarried father to register his child’s birth under his surname Centre for Child Law v DG: Home Affairs
- JUDGMENT: The criminal prohibition of possession, use or cultivation of cannabis by an adult person for personal consumption in private is an infringement of the right to privacy of an adult person and constitutionally invalid. (Minister of Justice v Prince)
- (1/2) Judgment on Tuesday, 29 June at 10h00: Is former President Jacob Zuma guilty of contempt of court and, if so, what is the appropriate sanction? (Secretary of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture v JG Zuma and Others)
- (1/2) Judgment on Friday, 17 September at 10h00: Is the judgment and order of the Constitutional Court, sentencing former President Zuma to imprisonment for contempt of court, rescindable? And should it be set aside? (JG Zuma v Secretary of the Judicial Commission and Others)
- Hearing tomorrow 10am: A long, illustrious judicial career is coming to an end. The Constitutional Court will honour Justice Edwin Cameron upon his retirement at a formal sitting that will take place in the courtroom.
