Courts prepare for battles over lockdown regulations
State has to be ready to deal with challenges on constitutional grounds, chief justice Mogoeng Mogoeng says
25 March 2020 - 19:30
The government and the courts are gearing up for possible urgent legal challenges to the state’s emergency lockdown regulations, which have been formulated in response to the global Covid-19 pandemic and are set to go into effect from midnight on Thursday.
These regulations were published in the Government Gazette — a process required to ensure they are legally binding — late on Wednesday afternoon...
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