ANTHONY BUTLER: Is the government sloppy or is it indifferent to judicial scrutiny?
Constitutional crisis beckons if the executive wilfully violates the law and ignores judicial instructions
04 June 2020 - 15:15
The courts and the government have been at loggerheads this week. Does this mean SA is heading for a constitutional crisis?
There was a successful court challenge to lockdown regulations that had required registration of essential businesses with the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission. Then the North Gauteng High Court issued a court order prohibiting the government from dragooning some of those who test positive for Covid-19 into state quarantine facilities...
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