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Doctors for Life v Speaker — Wikipedia (en)

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  title = {Doctors for Life v Speaker — Wikipedia (en)},
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In Doctors for Life International v Speaker of the National Assembly and Others, the Constitutional Court of South Africa held that Parliament and the provincial legislatures are constitutionally obliged to take reasonable steps to enable effective public participation in the legislative process in respect of every law passed. The court invalidated the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Amendment Act, 2004 and the Traditional Health Practitioners Act, 2004 on the basis that the National Council of Provinces had not solicited public submissions on the laws before passing them. The court was split eight-to-three on the merits of the application. Justice Sandile Ngcobo wrote the majority judgment, a lengthy judgment that drew heavily on the principle of participatory democracy. Justice Zak Yacoob, who wrote the leading dissent, disagreed with Ngcobo's conception of the nature, scope, and justiciability of the section 72 obligation, and he warned strongly against judicial trespass on the separation of powers, arguing that such trespass indirectly infringed the political rights of voters in a representative democracy.

Tema degli esploratori: governance digitale e beni comuni (deposito sistematico; ricerca «participatory democracy»).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Doctors for Life v Speaker» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors_for_Life_v_Speaker
Wikidata Q124639450: «South African legal case» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124639450
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors_for_Life_v_Speaker?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
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