Lucy Maxwell

Lucy Maxwell is a solicitor from Australia with a background in administrative law and human rights law. Lucy has been interning as a Foreign Attorney at the Legal Resources Centre in the Eastern Cape and assisted in the preparation of the LRC’s challenge to the scholar transport program. |Lucy Maxwell is a solicitor from Australia with a background in administrative law and human rights law. Lucy has been interning as a Foreign Attorney at the Legal Resources Centre in the Eastern Cape and assisted in the preparation of the LRC’s challenge to the scholar transport program.

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Access to information in order to speak freely: Is this a right under the European Convention?

Access to information in order to speak freely: Is this a right under the European Convention?

If access to government information is “necessary” for you to investigate and communicate about matters of “obvious public interest”, you may have a right to that information, according to the Grand Chamber of the European Court of ...
Long Walk to Education – Scholar Transport Now an Element of the Right to Basic Education in South Africa

Long Walk to Education – Scholar Transport Now an Element of the Right to Basic Education in South Africa

In the precedent-setting decision of Tripartite Steering Committee and Another, the Eastern Cape High Court held that the constitutional right to a basic education is ‘meaningless’ unless students have access to transport to and from ...