Presidency ordered to disclose Khampepe Report

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Cele loses ‘shoot to kill’ defamation case

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Australian high court rules on Google advertising case

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Sub judice rule, Oscar and media

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I wrote this article with Avani Singh for the Sunday Independent on the back of the wide spread media attention of the court appearance of Oscar Pistorius in 2013.

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Con Court rules on media access to Krejcir refugee appeal

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In 2007, notorious Czech national, Mr Radovan Krejcir, applied for asylum in South Africa. His application was refused in October 2008. Thereafter, Mr Krejcir appealed to the RAB. The applicants, three national media houses, requested the RAB’s permission to have journalists present at this appeal application hearing in order to report on the proceedings. Their requests were refused based on the Refugees Act.

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