The Freedom Front (FF) Plus intends to take an urgent application to the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria to challenge the validity of the National Disaster Management Act and to request a finding that the government is abusing the Act, which will mean that the announced state of disaster and the associated regulations are unconstitutional.According…
The High Court will rule on Wednesday on the application by John Waters and Gemma O’Doherty for permission to challenge laws introduced due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In judicial review proceedings against the State and the Minister for Health, the applicants seek to have various pieces of recently enacted legislation relating to the virus, which…
FILE PHOTO: Nurses at Montefiore Medical Center Moses Division hospital hold a protest demanding N95 masks and other critical Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to handle patients during the outbreak coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Bronx borough of New York City, New York, U.S., April 2, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan Mcdermid(Reuters) – A U.S. District Court on Friday…
Asia Pacific|Thailand Court Disbands Popular Opposition PartyThai courts have a history of dissolving opposition parties. Critics call it judicial harassment aimed at smothering democracy.Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, the young tycoon who leads the Future Forward Party, at a Bangkok news conference on Friday.Credit…Lillian Suwanrumpha/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesFeb. 21, 2020Updated 5:45 a.m. ETBANGKOK — Thailand’s most dynamic…
Photo: Saul Loeb (Getty)A federal judge just put the brakes on a major military contract after Amazon argued it only lost out to rival Microsoft because the president wanted to “screw” CEO Jeff Bezos. This injunction marks the latest development in the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) project’s ongoing saga. The contract—an up to $10…
