Court

This week’s High Court judgment on the lockdown regulations is unconvincing in many respects and has applied the law incorrectly, writes Richard Calland. A South African High Court has declared the government’s lockdown regulations unconstitutional and, therefore, invalid, driving a coach and horses through its Covid-19 strategy.Justice Norman Davis found that both the level 3 and…

A 300-bed quarantine site has been opened up on Old Mutual premises in Pinelands in Cape Town. (Jan Ras, News24) The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has ordered that any person who has tested positive for Covid-19 cannot be forced to quarantine or be isolated at a state facility, if that person is able to…

The landmark judgment on Tuesday by the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria reining in a state which started out with the support of most South Africans in resisting the spread of the coronavirus, sets out the thrust of its arguments with a lengthy quote by former US attorney general Robert Kennedy.In his famous "ripple of…

    The DA says it is illegal and unlawful for government to use BBBEE, race, gender or disability in determining who gets Covid-19 government relief.    They want the court to interdict government from applying transformation criteria to any government assistance in response to the pandemic.    Government says the DA's arguments are absurd and the court…

Some hairdressers 'living hand to mouth', court hears in bid to reopen salonsThey include beauty services and tattoo parlours. ApplicationIn the application heard on Wednesday, Viljoen told the court hair professionals trained for three years, saying much of this included training in "proper sanitation".He said he was thus convinced hair professionals were capable of and ready…