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The court is headed by a Judge President (JP) and a Deputy Judge President (DJP) and there are nine other judges on the court. [1] Each case before the court is heard by a single judge. The Labour Court has exclusive jurisdiction over cases arising from the Labour Relations Act, 1995, which deals with collective bargaining, trade unions ...
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
Mandatory death penalty for murder was abolished in 1935, comparable to the similar act passed in the United Kingdom in 1957. Before this reform, vast numbers of delinquents were sentenced to death without having their sentences carried out, with only 24% of capital verdicts being carried out in the period 1925 to 1935 (including 7% of verdicts ...
[140] [141] In 2009, the Supreme Court upheld a 2005 Constitutional Court ruling that although the death penalty was constitutional, its use as a mandatory punishment for certain crimes was not. [142] In 2019 mandatory death penalty was abolished by law. [143] Zambia: 1997 2022 (civil crimes)
The Superior Courts Act, 2013 restructured the High Courts into divisions of a single High Court of South Africa, and also provided for the creation of divisions for Limpopo and Mpumalanga, which had previously fallen under the jurisdiction of the Gauteng High Court at Pretoria. The Gauteng Division of the High Court in Johannesburg includes a ...
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These include S v Makwanyane (abolishing the death penalty), Government of the Republic of South Africa v Grootboom (establishing the justiciability of socio-economic rights), the Treatment Action Campaign case (compelling government to provide anti-retroviral drugs to prevent transmission of HIV at childbirth) and the silicosis class action ...
In September 2020, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court’s injunction and permitted the TPS designation to be terminated. Biden reversed Trump’s policies and expanded TPS ...