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Separation of powers and the institutional supremacy of the Constitutional Court over Parliament and the executive 三权分立和宪法法院高于议会和行政机关的制度至上
IF 0.9 4区 社会学 Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/02587203.2021.1925954
Felix Dube
Abstract South African judges often caution against judicial encroachment into what they perceive as the exclusive domains of the legislature and the executive. Their caveats stem from the doctrine of separation of powers, which classically divides state authority between the three branches of government. However, the classification of the courts, particularly the Constitutional Court, as a branch of the government potentially misconstrues the division of state authority in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996. The powers and authority of the Constitutional Court place it at the apex of the legal and political order such that from a conceptual and practical view, the Court is constitutionally superior to Parliament and the executive. As such, a traditional understanding of the doctrine of separation of powers does not properly reflect the South African constitutional arrangement. This contribution re-evaluates the relevance and application of the doctrine of separation of powers in contemporary jurisprudence. It recognises the superiority of the Constitutional Court over Parliament and the executive and shows that the time has come to consider the institutional supremacy of the Constitutional Court as a possible doctrine of constitutional law in South Africa.
摘要南非法官经常警告不要让司法侵犯他们所认为的立法机构和行政部门的专属领域。他们的警告源于分权理论,该理论将国家权力典型地划分为政府的三个部门。然而,将法院,特别是宪法法院归类为政府部门,可能会误解1996年《南非共和国宪法》中对国家权力的划分。宪法法院的权力和权威使其处于法律和政治秩序的顶端,因此从概念和实践角度来看,宪法法院在宪法上优于议会和行政部门。因此,对三权分立学说的传统理解并不能恰当地反映南非的宪法安排。这一贡献重新评估了三权分立学说在当代法学中的相关性和应用。它承认宪法法院优于议会和行政部门,并表明现在是时候将宪法法院的制度至高无上视为南非可能的宪法学说了。
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Are judicial monitoring institutions a legitimate remedy for addressing systemic socioeconomic rights violations? 司法监督机构是解决系统性社会经济权利侵犯的合法补救措施吗?
IF 0.9 4区 社会学 Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/02587203.2021.1934105
Ropafadzo Maphosa
Abstract Sections 26(2) and 27(2) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 provide that the state must take reasonable legislative and other measures to ensure the progressive realisation of socio-economic rights including, housing and social security. The executive is generally responsible for the implementation of these rights. However, a core challenge in South Africa is that the executive is beset by chronic incapacity, especially at provincial and local government levels, which has hindered the realisation of socio-economic rights. This article investigates the increasingly intrusive orders by the judiciary to address this problem; these orders include, specifically, appointing bodies to manage service delivery by the executive. I will situate these mechanisms within the broader powers of the judiciary and provide a justification for them, under particular conditions, against criticisms of judicial overreach. In engaging with their legal justifiability, I will analyse recent South African case law as well as examples from India and Colombia so as to highlight that the South Africa judiciary is not unique in developing such mechanisms. In concluding, I identify the conditions under which the deployment of these mechanisms may be considered justifiable as well as their value in advancing the realisation of socio-economic rights in South Africa.
1996年《南非共和国宪法》第26条第2款和第27条第2款规定,国家必须采取合理的立法和其他措施,确保逐步实现包括住房和社会保障在内的社会经济权利。行政部门一般负责落实这些权利。然而,南非面临的一个核心挑战是,行政部门长期无能为力,尤其是在省和地方政府层面,这阻碍了社会经济权利的实现。本文调查了司法部门为解决这一问题而日益增加的侵入性命令;这些命令具体包括任命机构来管理行政部门提供的服务。我将把这些机制置于更广泛的司法权力范围内,并在特定条件下为它们提供理由,以反对对司法越权的批评。在讨论其法律正当性时,我将分析最近南非的判例法以及印度和哥伦比亚的例子,以强调南非司法机构在发展此类机制方面并非独一无二。最后,我指出在哪些条件下部署这些机制可以被认为是合理的,以及它们在促进实现南非社会经济权利方面的价值。
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Esoteric decision-making: Judicial responses to the judicialisation of politics, the Constitutional Court and EFF II 深奥的决策:对政治司法化的司法反应,宪法法院和EFF II
IF 0.9 4区 社会学 Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/02587203.2021.1932566
Lauren Gildenhuys
Abstract Esoteric decision-making refers to the express reliance on apolitical, technical and legal justifications to substantiate a judicial outcome that is preferred for political reasons, which remain unexpressed. Historically, the Constitutional Court has, in the face of highly political cases, relied on a number of esoteric decision-making techniques. These include prevailing on narrow or apolitical sources of law; using technical, formalist modes of reasoning; and exploiting the indeterminism of the separation of powers. Esoteric decision-making may be a necessary and justified judicial response to instances of the judicialisation of politics in order to protect the institutional security, independence and legitimacy of courts. However, when used ineptly, it risks inviting the institutional vulnerability that its use seeks to avoid. To illustrate this point, this paper discusses the majority judgment in EFF II and contrasts it to previous instances in which the Court has applied esoteric decision-making more successfully. Given the prevalence of the judicialisation of politics in South Africa, the Constitutional Court’s continued institutional legitimacy will depend on the careful and strategic application of esoteric decision-making in future cases.
深奥决策是指明确依赖非政治的、技术的和法律的理由来证实出于政治原因而优选的司法结果,而政治原因尚未明确表达。从历史上看,宪法法院在面对高度政治化的案件时,依赖于一些深奥的决策技巧。这些包括在狭隘的或非政治的法律渊源上占上风;运用技术的、形式主义的推理模式;并利用权力分立的不确定性。深奥的决策可能是对政治司法化实例的必要和合理的司法反应,以保护法院的制度安全、独立性和合法性。然而,如果使用不当,它可能会引发机构脆弱性,而这种脆弱性的使用是为了避免的。为了说明这一点,本文讨论了EFF II的多数判决,并将其与法院更成功地应用深奥决策的先前案例进行了对比。鉴于政治司法化在南非的盛行,宪法法院能否继续保持制度上的合法性,将取决于在未来的案件中谨慎而有策略地运用深奥的决策。
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The path-breaking odyssey of George Bizos SC: A tribute 乔治·比索斯SC的开创性奥德赛:致敬
IF 0.9 4区 社会学 Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/02587203.2020.1921332
Jason Brickhill
George Bizos SC died on 9 September 2020 at the age of 92, as the most senior member of the Johannesburg Bar. Bizos joined the Bar in 1954 and took silk in 1978. Therefore his career at the Bar spanned an extraordinary 65 years during a tumultuous period of South Africa’s history. From 1991 until shortly before his death, he served as Senior Counsel at the Legal Resources Centre’s Constitutional Litigation Unit. He will be remembered as one of South Africa’s greatest advocates, particularly with regard to the innumerable political trials he appeared in, many of which have been discussed and debated in the pages of the South African Journal on Human Rights. Throughout his years as a struggle lawyer during apartheid, and long after democratic elections in 1994, Bizos was a major contributor to the constitutional transition and the building of South Africa’s constitutional democracy. When, in 1999, the University of the Witwatersrand conferred an honorary doctorate of law honoris causa on Bizos, the citation described him as ‘the doyen’ of the human rights lawyers at the Johannesburg Bar. Such was the breadth and depth of his work over more than half a century that I can only touch on some of his most lasting contributions, and their significance, both for public interest lawyers and for future human rights debates. It is difficult to describe the role of George Bizos as counsel without putting the apartheid legal system as a whole on trial. All of the political trials in which he represented activists and freedom fighters involved direct confrontation with the apartheid state, mediated through the artifice of legalism that it used to suppress political activity. He never shied away from speaking truth to power. While Bizos is particularly remembered for his role in arguably the most famous political trials of the twentieth century, including the Rivonia Trial and Delmas Trial, he represented many more political activists and freedom fighters, including many less well-known figures. It was during this brutal period that Bizos developed a deep, lifelong and unflinching abhorrence for the death penalty, scarred as he was by the execution of activists that he had represented. During the Rivonia Trial, he reportedly persuaded Nelson Mandela to
George Bizos SC于2020年9月9日去世,享年92岁,是约翰内斯堡律师协会最资深的成员。比佐斯1954年加入律师协会,1978年开始从事丝绸行业。因此,在南非历史的动荡时期,他的律师生涯跨越了非同寻常的65年。从1991年到去世前不久,他一直担任法律资源中心宪法诉讼部门的高级法律顾问。他将作为南非最伟大的倡导者之一而被人们铭记,尤其是在他参与的无数政治审判方面,其中许多审判都在《南非人权杂志》上进行了讨论和辩论。在种族隔离期间和1994年民主选举后的漫长岁月里,比佐斯一直是宪法过渡和南非宪政民主建设的主要贡献者。1999年,当威特沃特斯兰德大学授予比佐斯荣誉法学博士学位时,引文将他描述为约翰内斯堡律师协会人权律师中的“元老”。他半个多世纪以来工作的广度和深度如此之大,以至于我只能谈谈他对公共利益律师和未来人权辩论的一些最持久的贡献及其意义。如果不对整个种族隔离法律体系进行审判,很难描述乔治·比佐斯作为律师的角色。他代表活动家和自由战士的所有政治审判都涉及与种族隔离国家的直接对抗,通过法律主义的手段进行调解,后者用来镇压政治活动。他从不回避向当权者讲真话。虽然比佐斯因其在20世纪最著名的政治审判中的角色而被人们铭记,包括里沃尼亚审判和德尔马斯审判,但他代表了更多的政治活动家和自由战士,包括许多不太知名的人物。正是在这段残酷的时期,比佐斯对死刑产生了深深的、终身的、坚定的憎恶,因为他所代表的活动家被处决,他伤痕累累。据报道,在里沃尼亚审判期间,他说服纳尔逊·曼德拉
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Designing remedies for a recalcitrant administration 为顽固的行政当局设计补救办法
IF 0.9 4区 社会学 Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/02587203.2021.1938660
G. Mukherjee, J. Tuovinen
Abstract This article concerns remedial design by courts in cases where constitutional rights are jeopardised by a recalcitrant administration. We focus on the recent judgment of the South African Constitutional Court in Bhekindlela Mwelase v Director-General for the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform – in particular its doctrinal innovation in appointing a Special Master to oversee the processing of labour tenant claims by the Department of Rural Affairs and Land Reform. We argue that the case raises both conceptual and practical questions about the relationship between rights and remedies, substantive law, and the separation of powers. We approach these questions after considering the judgment in its socio-political context through a consideration of the factors underlying the granting of the remedy, from both a theoretical and comparative perspective. The paper identifies a set factors that underpinned the Court’s decision that will be likely to influence the granting of invasive remedies in future cases. We then apply these factors to the judgment of the Supreme Court of India in the Right to Food Case to better understand the ways they play out in a different jurisdictional context. These factors can provide doctrinal and normative guidance for courts – especially in the so-called Global South – that often operate under conditions of chronic recalcitrance, inattentiveness, inaction, or incompetence of the coordinate branches of government.
摘要本文讨论的是法院在宪法权利受到顽固行政当局危害的情况下的补救设计。我们的重点是南非宪法法院最近在bhekindela Mwelase诉农村发展和土地改革司司长一案中作出的判决,特别是该判决在任命一名特别主任监督农村事务和土地改革司处理劳工佃户索赔方面的理论创新。我们认为,该案件提出了关于权利与救济、实体法和三权分立之间关系的概念和实践问题。我们从理论和比较的角度,通过考虑给予补救的基本因素,在其社会政治背景下考虑判决后,处理这些问题。该文件确定了支持法院裁决的一系列因素,这些因素可能会影响在未来案件中给予侵入性补救措施。然后,我们将这些因素应用于印度最高法院在食物权案中的判决,以更好地理解它们在不同司法背景下的作用方式。这些因素可以为法院提供理论和规范指导-特别是在所谓的全球南方-这些法院经常在政府协调部门长期顽固,疏忽,不作为或无能的情况下运作。
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Transparency: New trajectories in law 透明度:法律的新轨迹
IF 0.9 4区 社会学 Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/02587203.2021.1934177
F. Adeleke
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Shaping legal and institutional pluralism: land rights, access to justice and citizenship in South Africa 塑造法律和体制多元化:南非的土地权、诉诸司法和公民身份
IF 0.9 4区 社会学 Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/02587203.2020.1867483
J. Ubink, Jean Pickering
Abstract In November 2019, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Bill into law. The Act forms part of a broader package of recent laws and proposed legislation regulating traditional leadership, which have been strongly critiqued for undermining the property and citizenship rights of South Africans residing in the former homelands. The Act is most strongly contested for providing traditional councils with the power to conclude agreements with companies on behalf of their communities. Mining deals are at the forefront of this debate, and the site of this study. Combining literature study and legal analysis with unique data obtained through interviews and participant observation, this article analyses how the new shape of legal and institutional pluralism affects the rights, strategies and access to justice of rural people in mining areas. It shows how laws regulating traditional authority and mining together paint a veneer of legality over mining deals that in fact infringe on the land rights of rural citizens who, both according to customary law and the Interim Protection of Informal Land Rights Act, have a say regarding their own land. Their residence in so-called traditional communities impedes their enjoyment of the same effective political and property rights as the rest of South Africa’s population.
2019年11月,南非总统西里尔·拉马福萨签署了《传统和科伊桑领导法案》,使之成为法律。该法案是最近一系列更广泛的关于传统领导的法律和拟议立法的一部分,这些法律和拟议立法因破坏居住在前家园的南非人的财产和公民权而受到强烈批评。该法案最受争议的地方在于,它赋予了传统理事会代表其社区与公司签订协议的权力。矿业交易处于这场辩论的前沿,也是本研究的重点。本文结合文献研究和法律分析,结合访谈和参与观察获得的独特数据,分析了法律和制度多元化的新形态如何影响矿区农村人口的权利、策略和诉诸司法。它显示了规范传统权威和采矿业的法律是如何为实际上侵犯农村公民土地权的采矿交易涂上一层合法的外衣的,根据习惯法和《非正式土地权临时保护法案》,农村公民对自己的土地有发言权。他们在所谓传统社区的居住阻碍了他们享有与南非其他人口同样有效的政治和财产权利。
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Revisiting the constitutionalisation of the common law of personality: transformative constitutionalism and Le Roux v Dey 重新审视人格普通法的宪法化:转型宪政与勒鲁诉戴伊案
IF 0.9 4区 社会学 Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/02587203.2020.1867482
C. Visser
Abstract In this article, I broadly consider the constitutionalisation of the common law of personality from the perspective of the South African transformative constitutionalism paradigm. This interrogation is the result of the Constitutional Court’s judgment in Le Roux v Dey, which provides an ostensible alignment between the common law and the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 in respect of the human personality. In this regard, I critique this judgment and show how it creates doctrinal, ideological, substantive and methodological barriers when one considers the common law’s actual constitutionalisation. These critiques follow from my argument that the constitutionalisation of the common law of personality ought to take place in terms of its doctrine, its underpinning ideology and resultant substance and method with reference to the overarching transformative paradigm. I argue that the constitutionalisation of the common law of personality should be revisited in terms of these considerations. At the end of this article, I attempt to demonstrate how these doctrinal, ideological and structural considerations ought to be addressed in mapping the way forward for the actual constitutionalisation of the common law of personality.
摘要本文从南非转型宪政范式的视角,对普通法人格的宪法化进行了广义的思考。这次审讯是宪法法院在Le Roux诉Dey案中作出的判决的结果,该判决表面上在人格方面使普通法和1996年南非共和国宪法保持一致。在这方面,我批评了这一判决,并表明当人们考虑到普通法的实际宪法化时,它是如何产生理论、意识形态、实质性和方法上的障碍的。这些批评来自于我的论点,即人格普通法的宪法化应该根据其学说,其基础意识形态以及与总体变革范式相关的结果实质和方法来进行。我认为,应该根据这些考虑,重新审视普通法人格的宪法化。在本文的最后,我试图说明这些理论、意识形态和结构上的考虑应该如何解决,以绘制出实际的人格普通法宪法化的前进道路。
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Confronting apartheid: a personal history of South Africa, Namibia and palestine 对抗种族隔离:南非、纳米比亚和巴勒斯坦的个人历史
IF 0.9 4区 社会学 Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/02587203.2020.1868098
Jeff Handmaker
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Designing Effective Legislation 设计有效的法例
IF 0.9 4区 社会学 Q3 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/02587203.2020.1864093
M. Pieterse
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