- Title
- The South African constitutional court and the rule of law: the Masethla judgment, a cause for concern?
- Creator
- Krüger, Rósaan
- Date Issued
- 2010
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/68930
- Identifier
- vital:29340
- Identifier
- http://ref.scielo.org/22p54n
- Description
- Publisher version
- Description
- The rule of law as a foundational constitutional value constrains the exercise of public power but the precise limits of the constraints it sets are not well defined. In Masethla v President of the Republic of South Africa, the majority of the Constitutional Court opted for an interpretation of this value that frees the President from adherence to the demands of procedural fairness when exercising certain constitutional powers. This note will investigate the soundness of that interpretation against the background of theoretical expositions of the rule of law and earlier Constitutional Court judgments.
- Format
- 26 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- SciELO
- Language
- English
- Relation
- PER: Potchefstroomse Elektroniese Regsblad
- Relation
- Krüger, R. (2010) The South African constitutional court and the rule of law: the Masethla judgment, a cause for concern?. PER: Potchefstroomse Elektroniese Regsblad, 13(3), 468-492
- Relation
- PER: Potchefstroomse Elektroniese Regsblad volume 13 number 3 468 492 2010 1727-3781
- Rights
- Copyright held by the author
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License
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