Demolition Before Verification: Nepal’s Eviction Drive and the Right to Housing
Within weeks of assuming office, Nepal’s new Prime Minister Balendra Shah directed security forces to clear informal riverside settlements across Kathmandu Valley. On 25 April, bulldozers rolled into various such...
The Changing Tides of Delictual Liability: State Failure at the Intersection of Housing and Property Rights in Johannesburg
A recent South African High Court decision, Changing Tides 74 v City of Johannesburg, marks a significant legal turn, testing how private law can respond to chronic state inaction in...
Bromwell Street: Constitutional Court judgment moves one step closer to a socially and spatially just South Africa
On 20 December 2024, South Africa’s Constitutional Court (‘Court’) handed down a landmark judgment in Commando and Others v The City of Cape Town addressing the important issue of spatial...
How Evictions Law Has Been Implemented in the Lower Courts in South Africa
Image description: A poster with the text, ‘decent, low-cost housing is a basic right; no more evictions; people before profit.’ The South African judicial structure begins with the lower courts,...
Spotlight on an Understudied Institution: Evictions and the Magistrate’s Court in South Africa
TRANSCRIPT: Spotlight on an understudied institution: evictions and the Magistrate’s Court in South Africa (Recorded August 2019) Rishika Sahgal (0:11) Welcome to RightsUp! RightNow, a podcast at [the] Oxford Human...
Demolitions in Muslim neighborhood in Delhi are unconstitutional
Image description: Bulldozers demolishing buildings in Kolkata, India in January 2020. On 20 April 2022, the homes and shops of people in a predominantly Muslim neighborhood in Delhi began to...
Right to housing and dignity denied: Indian Supreme Court orders eviction of slum dwellers within 3 months
In a recent order passed in the case of MC Mehta v. Union of India, the Supreme Court has given directions to remove around 48,000 slum dwellings that run along...
