Fita to appeal high court tobacco ruling ‘riddled with errors’
The tobacco association says illicit trade in cigarettes is ‘destructive of the rationality of the ban’, a notion the court dismissed
03 July 2020 - 14:44
The Fair Trade Independent Tobacco Association (Fita) says the high court ruling that effectively validated the government’s controversial coronavirus cigarette sales ban is riddled with legal and factual errors, and it plans to urgently appeal it.
Three judges at the Pretoria High Court last week dismissed the first major legal challenge to the government’s tobacco ban, after finding there is a “rational connection” between the prohibition on cigarette sales — now the only one of its kind in the world — and the government’s stated objective of using it to save lives...
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