PIP: South Africa's new Labor Relations Act represents a major advance in protecting persons... more PIP: South Africa's new Labor Relations Act represents a major advance in protecting persons with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) from workplace discrimination. In this document, HIV and AIDS are included as conditions ...
Page 1. THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, LAW REFORM AND JURISPRUDENCE Edwin Cameron* Dennis M Davis... more Page 1. THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, LAW REFORM AND JURISPRUDENCE Edwin Cameron* Dennis M Davist Gilbert J MarcusJ THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE Generally: Accounting for Crimes of The Past ...
During November 28-30 1994 the Organization of African Trade Union Unity Health Safety and Enviro... more During November 28-30 1994 the Organization of African Trade Union Unity Health Safety and Environment Program and the Southern Africa AIDS Information Dissemination Service held a conference on AIDS and Employment in Harare Zimbabwe. During the regional conference a consensus was reached on many workplace policies on AIDS and HIV. However significant problem areas remain. The first is that deviations from the accepted norms appear to occur widely in practice. Many employers suggest or enforce HIV testing and there are many instances where employers have acted detrimentally to the job security of an employee with an HIV positive diagnosis. The second problem area involves the enforcement of pre-employment HIV testing and discrimination in employment benefits. It is noted that pre-employment HIV testing tends to close the job market to persons with HIV depriving them of the means to earn their living. Nevertheless it is widely practiced in southern African labor statutes. Employment benefits have also been denied to HIV positive employees although to deny all benefits to those with HIV/AIDS solely on the ground of the cost implications constitutes unfair and irrational discrimination. Fair apportionments of benefits that take into account the actuarial limits of what can be provided for all employees in need including those with HIV/AIDS should be addressed.
... 53 Incorporated Law Society v Wookey 1912 AD 623 (the Cape statute permitting the admission t... more ... 53 Incorporated Law Society v Wookey 1912 AD 623 (the Cape statute permitting the admission to legal practice of 'persons' could not, for historical reasons, be interpreted to include women, who were therefore excluded from practice). ...
... the book. That was done in the fifth edition of 1946. The sixth edition of 1957 was a radical... more ... the book. That was done in the fifth edition of 1946. The sixth edition of 1957 was a radical rewrite of exceptional quality undertaken by Mr Justice Herbstein and PWE (later Mr Justice) Baker and S Aaron (later SC). As the book ...
PIP: South Africa's new Labor Relations Act represents a major advance in protecting persons... more PIP: South Africa's new Labor Relations Act represents a major advance in protecting persons with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) from workplace discrimination. In this document, HIV and AIDS are included as conditions ...
Page 1. THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, LAW REFORM AND JURISPRUDENCE Edwin Cameron* Dennis M Davis... more Page 1. THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, LAW REFORM AND JURISPRUDENCE Edwin Cameron* Dennis M Davist Gilbert J MarcusJ THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE Generally: Accounting for Crimes of The Past ...
During November 28-30 1994 the Organization of African Trade Union Unity Health Safety and Enviro... more During November 28-30 1994 the Organization of African Trade Union Unity Health Safety and Environment Program and the Southern Africa AIDS Information Dissemination Service held a conference on AIDS and Employment in Harare Zimbabwe. During the regional conference a consensus was reached on many workplace policies on AIDS and HIV. However significant problem areas remain. The first is that deviations from the accepted norms appear to occur widely in practice. Many employers suggest or enforce HIV testing and there are many instances where employers have acted detrimentally to the job security of an employee with an HIV positive diagnosis. The second problem area involves the enforcement of pre-employment HIV testing and discrimination in employment benefits. It is noted that pre-employment HIV testing tends to close the job market to persons with HIV depriving them of the means to earn their living. Nevertheless it is widely practiced in southern African labor statutes. Employment benefits have also been denied to HIV positive employees although to deny all benefits to those with HIV/AIDS solely on the ground of the cost implications constitutes unfair and irrational discrimination. Fair apportionments of benefits that take into account the actuarial limits of what can be provided for all employees in need including those with HIV/AIDS should be addressed.
... 53 Incorporated Law Society v Wookey 1912 AD 623 (the Cape statute permitting the admission t... more ... 53 Incorporated Law Society v Wookey 1912 AD 623 (the Cape statute permitting the admission to legal practice of 'persons' could not, for historical reasons, be interpreted to include women, who were therefore excluded from practice). ...
... the book. That was done in the fifth edition of 1946. The sixth edition of 1957 was a radical... more ... the book. That was done in the fifth edition of 1946. The sixth edition of 1957 was a radical rewrite of exceptional quality undertaken by Mr Justice Herbstein and PWE (later Mr Justice) Baker and S Aaron (later SC). As the book ...
Continues the advocacy for systemic improvements in criminal justice enforcement and administrati... more Continues the advocacy for systemic improvements in criminal justice enforcement and administration, rather than futilely imposing minimum and other harsh sentences, as a means of addressing the crisis of criminal violence in South Africa, which was also the focus of my UWC lecture in October 2017.
Minimum sentences are a sadly misguided and profoundly counter-productive blemish on South Africa... more Minimum sentences are a sadly misguided and profoundly counter-productive blemish on South Africa's journey toward democracy over the last twenty years
Some additional instances of SCC progressive jurisprudence roundabout the time of Mabior - and ac... more Some additional instances of SCC progressive jurisprudence roundabout the time of Mabior - and accentuating the contrast with it - added since the lecture was given.
Serious violations of the rights of LGBTI persons in Africa, and, in South Africa, particularly b... more Serious violations of the rights of LGBTI persons in Africa, and, in South Africa, particularly black lesbians living in townships, continue, but through our committed struggle, throughout the continent, we are beginning a struggle that will culminate in victory
Two Canadian Supreme Court decisions, Cuerrier and Mabior, reflect and harmfully reinforce irrati... more Two Canadian Supreme Court decisions, Cuerrier and Mabior, reflect and harmfully reinforce irrational stigma against HIV.
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