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The South African Constitution as an instrument of doing what is just, right and fair

In die Skriflig

 
 
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Title The South African Constitution as an instrument of doing what is just, right and fair
 
Creator Dube, Felix
 
Subject Law Constitution of South Africa; Justice; Preamble; Founding values; Bill of Rights
Description The South African Constitution creates rights and imposes obligations. However, it is not established that constitutional obligations include doing what is just, right and fair. This article sought to ascertain whether the Constitution binds South Africans to legally enforceable obligations to do what is just, right and fair. The article used the doctrinal legal research methodology, which entailed the analysis of primary and secondary sources of law such as the Constitution, case law, books and journal articles. The analysis showed that doing what is just, right and fair is legally mandated by the spirit of the Constitution, which is expressly and implicitly articulated in the preamble, the founding values and the Bill of Rights. The analysis further showed that the judiciary is at the epicentre of facilitating justice and ensuring that all public and private conduct is right and fair.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor South African Research Chair in Cities, Law and Environmental Sustainability
Date 2020-12-21
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Doctrinal legal research
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/ids.v54i1.2601
 
Source In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi; Vol 54, No 1 (2020); 6 pages 2305-0853 1018-6441
 
Language eng
 
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https://indieskriflig.org.za/index.php/skriflig/article/view/2601/6767 https://indieskriflig.org.za/index.php/skriflig/article/view/2601/6766 https://indieskriflig.org.za/index.php/skriflig/article/view/2601/6768 https://indieskriflig.org.za/index.php/skriflig/article/view/2601/6765
 
Coverage South Africa Contemporary n/a
Rights Copyright (c) 2020 Felix Dube https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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