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The Constitutional Court held that the issue of whether socio-economic rights are justiciable at all in South Africa is put beyond question by the text of the Constitution as construed in the judgment Ex parte Chairperson of the Constitutional Assembly: In re Certification of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa. [6]
Irene Grootboom (c. 1969 – 2008) was a South African housing rights activist best known for her victory before the Constitutional Court in 2000. [1] The Court found that the government had not met its obligation to provide adequate alternative housing for the residents of Kraaifontein’s Wallacedene informal settlement. The ruling provided ...
Government v Grootboom [2000] ZACC 19: 8 Independent Electoral Commission v Langeberg Municipality [2001] ZACC 23: 9 S v Price [2001] ZACC 1: 10 De Beer v North-Central Local Council and South-Central Local Council [2001] ZACC 9: 11 MEC for Local Government and Development Planning, Western Cape v Paarl Poultry Enterprises [2001] ZACC 7: 12 ...
At the same time, he handed down several landmark judgements in public and constitutional law. Government v Grootboom, a landmark Constitutional Court case which upheld the justiciability of socioeconomic rights, upheld a High Court judgement written by Davis in 2000. [16]
In the 1990s, he was a technical adviser in the post-apartheid constitutional negotiations and a member of the inaugural Independent Electoral Commission before he was appointed to the Constitutional Court. He is well known for drafting the Constitutional Court's judgement in Grootboom, a landmark socioeconomic rights matter.
He developed a reputation for practice of public law and featured as counsel in several notable Constitutional Court cases, including Government v Grootboom, on the justiciability of socioeconomic rights; Mohamed v President, on the legality of extradition or deportation to a second country where the subject faces the death penalty (in this ...
Chaos erupted at Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s final press conference Thursday after an announced Israel-Hamas cease-fire and hostage deal, with State Department employees forcibly ...
In 2000, in Government of the Republic of South Africa v Grootboom, [22] the Constitutional Court held that although there was a justiciable right under section 26 to housing, this had to be interpreted in the light of administrative difficulties of achieving social and economic rights in practice. The claimant, Irene Grootboom, had been living ...