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    The South African Bill of Rights and the Development of Family Law
    (Juta Law, 2002) Bonthuys, Elsje
    Family law is probably the area of South African private law which has expanded and changed most rapidly in the past nine years. Many of these changes have come about as a result of the enactment of a Bill of Rights in both the interim and the final Constitution. 1 On the one hand, this is not surprising, since family law contains many legal rules which are overtly discriminatory on the bases of sex, gender, culture, religion and sexual orientation. On the other hand, legal rules in this area represent a codification of moral and social norms in the quotidian and 'private' lives of many people, which are often resistant to scrutiny and change.
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    Substantive equality and transformation in South Africa
    (Juta and Co, 2007) Albertyn, Catherine
    This article considers whether ‘substantive equality’, as a transformative idea and legal mechanism in the South African Constitution, can generate legal solutions and court decisions that may result in transformative change. It does so by establishing a framework for analysing the ‘inclusionary’ or ‘transformatory’ effects of equality cases in relation to gender and sexual orientation. It argues that the idea of substantive equality is capable of addressing diverse forms of social and economic inequality, and that the legal form of substantive equality adopted by the Constitutional Court, emphasising context, impact, difference and values, has some potential for achieving meaningful social and economic change by and through courts. However, the manner is which the Court has engaged with this legal form suggests that the transformative possibilities of equality are constrained by a number of factors. These include institutional concerns, the capacity and willingness of judges to recognise and address the multiple systemic inequalities that still pervade our society as well as their ability to develop a consistently transformative jurisprudence that applies the ideas of substantive equality to the concepts and doctrines that underpin many equality claims.
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    Statistics
    (1997-09-18) Klaaren, Jonathan
    This section provides some descriptive statistics on the work of the Constitutional Court in the past year.
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    Constitutional Authority to enforce the rights of Administrative Justice and access to Information
    (Juta, 1997) Klaaren, Jonathan
    Analysis of the constitutionality of two sections of the Bill of Rights.
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    Teaching procedural jurisdictional facts
    (Juta, 1998) Klaaren, Jonathan
    Teaching procedural jurisdictional facts.
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    Open justice and beyond: Independent Newspapers v Minister for Intelligence Services: In re Masetlha
    (Juta, 2009) Klaaren, Jonathan
    Notes on a constitutional court decision within the context of national security and openness.
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    The administration of justice
    (Juta, 2003) Klaaren, Jonathan; Marcus, Gilbert; Davis, Dennis
    Overview and analysis of the year's legal developments in the field of administration of justice. Includes references to legislation, cases and journal articles.
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    The administration of justice
    (Juta, 2002) Klaaren, Jonathan; Marcus, Gilbert; Davis, Dennis
    The Immorality Amendment Act 2 criminalized prostitution in 1998. It did so by the insertion of s 20(1)(aA) into the principal Act, which it renamed the Sexual Offences Act 23 of 1957.
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    Redlight, Greenlight- Fedsure Life Assurance v Greater Johannesburg Transitional Metropolitan Council, Premier, Mpumalanga v Executive Committee, Association of State-Aided Schools, Eastern Transvaal
    (Juta, 1999) Klaaren, Jonathan
    Commentary on the administrative law aspects of two decisions heard in the Constitutional Court. Does the right of administrative justice found an independent cause of action or one that is co-extensive with judicial review on administrative law principles.
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    Judicial independence and the Constitution Fourteenth Amendment Bill
    (Juta, 2006) Albertyn, Catherine
    Discussion of judicial independence and the Constitution Fourteenth Amendment Bill