Book contents
- Justice for Everyone
- Justice for Everyone
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Cases
- Table of Legislation
- Table of International Treaties and Conventions
- Brenda Hale Bibliography
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Personal Reflections
- Part III Academic
- Part IV Law Commissioner
- Part V Judge
- Judicial Leadership
- 11 Brenda Hale
- 12 Assessing Lady Hale’s Impact on the UK’s Final Appeal Courts
- 13 The Qualities of Lady Hale’s Legal Reasoning
- 14 On Personhood for Everyone
- 15 Lady Hale and Access to Justice
- 16 Lady Hale in the South African Courts
- Family Law and Children’s Rights
- Human Rights and the State
- Private Law and the Individual
- Part VI Creative Encounters
- Index
16 - Lady Hale in the South African Courts
An Illustration of the Many Roles of Foreign Case Law in South African Jurisprudence
from Judicial Leadership
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2022
- Justice for Everyone
- Justice for Everyone
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Cases
- Table of Legislation
- Table of International Treaties and Conventions
- Brenda Hale Bibliography
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Personal Reflections
- Part III Academic
- Part IV Law Commissioner
- Part V Judge
- Judicial Leadership
- 11 Brenda Hale
- 12 Assessing Lady Hale’s Impact on the UK’s Final Appeal Courts
- 13 The Qualities of Lady Hale’s Legal Reasoning
- 14 On Personhood for Everyone
- 15 Lady Hale and Access to Justice
- 16 Lady Hale in the South African Courts
- Family Law and Children’s Rights
- Human Rights and the State
- Private Law and the Individual
- Part VI Creative Encounters
- Index
Summary
It is an honour to contribute to this book celebrating Lady Hale’s remarkable contribution as a judge. That contribution has extended well beyond the United Kingdom and in this short chapter, written to pay a small tribute to her large contribution as a judge and scholar, I shall describe the reliance on her jurisprudence by South African courts, and use that reliance to assess the history of the use of foreign precedents by South African judges as part of the ongoing global conversations about the legitimacy of domestic courts’ use of foreign precedent in their judicial reasoning.
According to the online free-access law reporter SAFLII, Lady Hale has been mentioned sixteen times in South African courts – twice in the Constitutional Court, eight times in the Supreme Court of Appeal and six times in the High Courts or courts of equivalent jurisdiction. The citations have related to diverse areas of the law. Five of the cases in which she has been cited have concerned the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.
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- Justice for EveryoneThe Jurisprudence and Legal Lives of Brenda Hale, pp. 169 - 176Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022