Georgia Speechly

Georgia Speechly is a DPhil in Law candidate at Exeter College, University of Oxford. Her current research is focused on obstetric violence in South Africa. She holds a Master of Laws (LLM) from Darwin College, University of Cambridge, as well as a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts from Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She previously worked as a judicial law clerk at the Constitutional Court of South Africa and as a candidate attorney at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr, Cape Town. She has also served as a legal researcher for the United Nations in the Supreme Court Chamber of the Extraordinary Chamber in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) and a visiting student at the University of Helsinki. She is an admitted attorney in the High Court of South Africa.

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How flexible are South African courts’ remedial powers? A closer look at the Constitutional Court’s shifting approach to constitutional damages

How flexible are South African courts’ remedial powers? A closer look at the Constitutional Court’s shifting approach to constitutional damages

In two 2021 judgments, Residents of Industry House and Thubakgale, the Constitutional Court of South Africa refused to award damages for human rights violations (‘constitutional damages’). The implications for the violated rights at ...
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