Private prosecutions and discrimination against juristic persons in South Africa: A comment on National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals v Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development & Another

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dc.contributor.authorMujuzi, Jamil Ddamulira
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-26T13:15:57Z
dc.date.available2016-07-26T13:15:57Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractUnlike countries such as the United Kingdom, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Australia, in South Africa companies and associations are not permitted to institute private prosecutions although natural persons have a right to institute private prosecutions. In National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals v Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development & Another, the applicant argued that the law which permitted natural persons to institute private prosecutions and prevented companies and associations from doing so violated section 9 of the Constitution which protects the right to equality. The court held that the discrimination in question was not unfair. In this note, the author assesses the court's reasoning and recommends that there may be a need to empower companies to institute private prosecutions in South Africa.en_US
dc.description.accreditationInternational Bibliography of the Social Sciences
dc.identifier.citationMujuzi, J.D. (2015). Private prosecutions and discrimination against juristic persons in South Africa: A comment on National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals v Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development & Another. African Human Rights Law Journal, 15(2): 537 - 558en_US
dc.identifier.issn1996-2096
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/2354
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherPretoria University Law Press (PULP)en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en
dc.source.urihttp://ref.scielo.org/fyy4f9
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectPrivate prosecutionen_US
dc.subjectJuristic personen_US
dc.subjectCompaniesen_US
dc.subjectDiscriminationen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectAnimal crueltyen_US
dc.subjectConstitutionen_US
dc.subjectNational Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animalsen_US
dc.titlePrivate prosecutions and discrimination against juristic persons in South Africa: A comment on National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals v Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development & Anotheren_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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