The Constitutional Court has ruled that farm dwellers seeking to challenge an eviction order should approach the Supreme Court of Appeal rather than the Land Claims Court when seeking legal recourse.The ruling given in December has been welcomed by advocacy groups as it ends several years of legal uncertainty over which court has jurisdiction in the matter.Lawyers for Human Rights attorney Louise du Plessis said on Monday that the judgment provided procedural clarity and might now help to reverse years of jurisprudential precedent from cases brought before the Land Claims Court.The Constitutional Court in December gave reasons for an interim order granted in November 2015, which concluded that the Snyders family should be returned to a dwelling they were finally evicted from in 2015 pending the outcome of their request for leave to appeal.The family from Voorbaat in the Western Cape fought Ladismith farm owner Louisa de Jager all the way to the Constitutional Court after farm worker...
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