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Rand Properties - right to adequate housing and evictions

This case centres around an appeal by the City of Johannesburg against a High Court ruling that the former may only evict people living in derelict buildings if it ensures that they have alternative accommodation. The Centre is intervening jointly with the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE). The key point of contention, amongst others, will be the impact of section 26(3) of the Constitution on certain provisions of the National Building Regulations Act, 1977.

Press Release on the judgment of Various Occupiers v City of Johannesburg and Others

Human Rights Organisations welcome judgment in the South African Constitutional Court

The Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) and the Cape Town-based Community Law Centre (CLC) at the University of the Western Cape welcomed the judgment that was handed down in the Constitutional Court today in the case of Various Occupiers v City of Johannesburg and others, in which COHRE and the CLC intervened as joint amici curiae.
      
The City of Johannesburg v Rand Properties (Pty)Ltd and others Appeal Case No.253/2006 (SCA):

Constitutional Court Case

Occupiers of 51 Olivia Road Berea Township and 197 Main Street Johannesburg v City of Johannesburg and Others Case No: CCT 24/07 (CC). The case was heard on 28 August 2007.

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Picture to the Left: Team representing the Amicus at the Constitutional Court.
      

Supreme Court of Appeal Case

The City of Johannesburg v Rand Properties (Pty)Ltd and others
Appeal Case No.253/2006 (SCA)

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CLC together with the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) has intervened as amici curiae. The case was heard in the Supremme Court of Appeal on 20 February 2007.
      
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Children's Rights
Prison Reform
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