Constitutional Court trends
My take - for a website form the Osgoode Hall Law School in Canada - about recent trends in the South African Constitutional Court jurisprudence.
This blog deals with political and social issues in South Africa, mostly from the perspective of Constitutional Law.
Posted by Pierre de Vos at 08:53
"We are all perpetually smoothing and rearranging reality to conform to our wishes; we lie to others and to ourselves constantly, unthinkingly. When, occasionally - and not by dint of our own efforts but under the pressure of external events - we are forced to see things as they are, we are like naked people in a storm. There are a few among us - psychoanalysts have encountered them - who are blessed or cursed with a strange imperviousness to the unpleasantness of self-knowledge. Their lies to themselves are so convincing that they are never unmasked. These are the people who never feel in the wrong, who are always able to justify their conduct, and who in the end - human nature being what it is - cause their fallible fellow-men to turn away from them,"
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Thanks for your contribution, Pierre. We're glad you've joined our Top Court Talk column.
By the way, you may want to see the Charkaoui decision handed down today by our Supreme Court, striking down Canada's security certificate legislation. It's the top story at http://www.thecourt.ca
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