Justin is a DPhil Law candidate researching positive duties to promote and achieve equality funded by a Rhodes Scholarship. Justin holds a BCom (2019) and an LLB (2021) from the University of Cape Town and a BCL (2022/23) from Oxford. Justin previously worked in research and strategic human-rights litigation whilst a Litigation Fellow at the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI). He has published articles on equality, human rights, and administrative law.
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Where social and economic justice meet: South Africa’s SRD decision affirms a rights-based approach to poverty
Over eighteen million of South Africa’s poorest peoples breathed a sigh of relief when, on 23 January 2025, the High Court of Pretoria handed down judgment in Institute for Economic Justice v Minister of Social Development. The ...
The Aberdeen housing crisis: Cementing housing rights in Scotland
In February 2024, hundreds of residents of privately and council-owned houses in Aberdeen began being moved out of their homes after around 500 homes were found to have been constructed using reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete ...
A Justiciable Right to Housing? The UK Supreme Court’s Decision in R (Imam) v London Borough of Croydon
In a December 2023 decision, the UK Supreme Court sought to clarify how courts should use their remedial discretion to make mandatory orders against local authorities. In doing so, the Court arguably made the right to be provided with ...
Parental Leave, Equality and Dignity in South Africa: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
On 25 October 2023, the Johannesburg High Court of South Africa in Van Wyk v Minister of Employment and Labour [2023] ZAGPJHC 1213 declared certain provisions of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act 75 of 1997 (BCEA) relating to ...
Thubakgale: Bringing Home the Right to Adequate Housing Against a Recalcitrant Municipality
An August 2023 housing rights decision of the Pretoria High Court in South Africa is the latest in a protracted dispute for the Thubakgale applicants against a municipality, in their battle for homes built and promised to them since ...
