Franny Rabkin Legal correspondent

Franny Rabkin is the Sunday Times legal correspondent. She has clerked at the Constitutional Court, practiced as an attorney and has been a legal journalist for more than 15 years.

Bester and Magudumana fail to block Showmax doccie from airing

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The Johannesburg high court on Friday rejected urgent bids by Thabo Bester and Nandipha Magudumana to interdict the ...

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Why Thabo Bester, Nandipha Magudumana oppose doccie, and Showmax's reasons to screen

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Thabo Bester and Nandipha Magudumana's lawyers will be in the high court on Friday urgently trying to prevent Showmax ...

No suspension for Eastern Cape judge president Selby Mbenenge

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The Judicial Service Commission has decided it will not recommend to President Cyril Ramaphosa that Eastern Cape judge ...

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ICJ tells Israel to ensure immediate humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza

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Israel must submit a report to the court on all measures that have been taken to give effect to its order within a ...

Another impeachment blow for Hlophe as JSC rules on second tribunal

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The Judicial Service Commission has decided that Western Cape judge president John Hlophe should face a second judicial ...

Ramokgopa given until end of January to ensure public hospitals, schools not affected by ...

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The Pretoria high court has ordered minister of electricity Kgosientsho Ramokgopa to “take all reasonable steps” — by ...

Aaron Motsoaledi loses appeal bid on Zimbabwe exemption permits

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Minister of home affairs Aaron Motsoaledi lost his application to appeal against the judgment that required him to go ...

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Lawyers and academics may be appointed directly to the ConCourt, says Zondo

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For the first time in decades, senior lawyers and legal academics will be considered for appointment directly to the ...

ConCourt refuses Zuma’s urgent appeal of high court interdict halting Ramaphosa’s private ...

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The Constitutional Court has, in a three-line order, refused a bid by former president Jacob Zuma to appeal against the ...

Judicial conduct committee orders retraction from Kriegler on Hlophe

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The judicial conduct committee has ordered retired ConCourt justice Johann Kriegler to retract a statement made in ...