Freedom Under Law launched an application to intervene as a friend of the court in a case brought by the former South African National Director of Public Prosecutions, Vusumzi Pikoli. Mr Pikoli challenged his suspension by then President Mbeki and subsequent dismissal by then President Motlanthe. On 24 June 2009 Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, an …
On 19 March members of Blackstone Chambers and Brick Court Chambers consulted with Jeremy Gauntlett SC and Prof Jeffery Jowell QC, a member of Freedom under Law’s International Advisory Board, on a possible legal strategy to enforce the SADC Tribunal judgment in the Campbell matter against the Zimbabwe Government abroad.
On 18 March 2009, two Board Members, Beatrice Mtetwa and Jeremy Gauntlett SC, delivered keynote addresses at a legal forum entitled “Zimbabwe: The War on Law” hosted by Clifford Chance in London. The event focused on the Government of Zimbabwe’s disregard for the rule of law, and was co-presented by Freedom Under Law with ALBA, …
An opinion editorial piece in a leading daily newspaper was authored by Chairman of Freedom Under Law, Justice Kriegler, highlighting why it was improper for the Cape Judge President to resume his duties while charges of misconduct were pending against him. The Judge President has since publicly apologised to the Minister of Justice and has …
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On 26 January 2009, and again the following week, Judge Kriegler was the guest on a national phone-in radio broadcast in South Africa discussing the rule of law and its importance to the people of South Africa.
Freedom Under Law was launched at a lunchtime gathering of some 200 journalists, academics, judges, legal practitioners, political leaders and interested members of the public at the Women’s Gaol on Constitution Hill on Friday 23 January 2009. Lord Steyn, a former Law Lord who chairs Freedom Under Law’s International Advisory Board, spoke of the opportunities …
