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    Minister of Home Affairs and Another v Fourie and Another; Lesbian and Gay Equality Project and Others v Minister of Home Affairs and Others, [2005] ZACC...
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    Albie Sachs (category Academics of the University of Southampton)
    a number of landmark cases, including Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie and the Prisoners' Right to Vote. After the Electoral Commission of South Africa...
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  • decision of the Constitutional Court in the case of Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie on 1 December 2005 extended the common-law definition of marriage...
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  • 1989), South African cricketer Fourie du Preez (born 1982), South African rugby union player Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie, a South African law case which...
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    was enacted as a consequence of the judgment of the Constitutional Court in the case of Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie, which ruled that it was unconstitutional...
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    reciprocal duties of support" into section 1(1) of the Act after the word "spouse." The court had already ruled in Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie that marriage...
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    of South Africa. University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Constitutional Court's Media Summary of its decision in Minister of Home Affairs v. Fourie...
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    Lesbian Equality and Others v Minister of Home Affairs and Others, [1999] ZACC 17, is a 1999 decision of the Constitutional Court of South Africa which extended...
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  • of same-sex marriages in South Africa came about as a result of the Constitutional Court's decision in the case of Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie....
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    same-sex marriage. In December 2005, in the case of Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie, the Constitutional Court of South Africa ruled unanimously that bans on...
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    institution of marriage in order to preserve it. Though Mr DE cited Dawood v Minister of Home Affairs and Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie to show that...
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  • 1 – The Constitutional Court of South Africa hands down its judgment in the case of Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie, declaring that it is unconstitutional...
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  • December: In the case of Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie, the Constitutional Court of South Africa unanimously finds the restriction of marriage to opposite-sex...
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    series of Constitutional Court rulings advancing LGBT rights in South Africa which culminated in the case Minister of Home Affairs and Another v Fourie and...
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    Court's large body of jurisprudence on same-sex life partnerships in the context of LGBT rights. Before Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie and the Civil Union...
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  • Africa v Minister of Educationand Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie. In Christian Education, as well as in the earlier matter of S v Lawrence; S v Negal;...
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  • South African family law (category Law of South Africa)
    partnerships: In Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie, it was declared unconstitutional. The Supreme Court of Appeal, in Fourie v Minister of Home Affairs, held that...
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  • Albie Sachs served in the Constitutional Court of South Africa from its inception in 1995 until his retirement in 2009....
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  • Fayeeza Kathree-Setiloane (category Academic staff of the University of the Western Cape)
    applicants in the matters of Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie and Lesbian and Gay Equality Project v Minister of Home Affairs; the Constitutional Court's...
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  • October – In the case of Fourie v Minister of Home Affairs, a judge of the Transvaal Provincial Division dismisses the application of a lesbian couple to...
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  • Kate O'Regan (category Judges of the Constitutional Court of South Africa)
    follow-up to Satchwell v President of the Republic of South Africa. Better known are her two dissents. In Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie, she strongly criticised...
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  • plaintiffs/petitioners and the government of New Zealand as the defender/respondent. The ECHR case, Schalk and Kopf v Austria, was in 2010, with a same-sex...
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    in South Africa, regardless of their characteristics. On 1 December 2005, in the case of Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie, the Constitutional Court ruled...
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  • Human rights in South Africa (category Politics of South Africa)
    Civil Union Act 17 of 2006 legalized same-sex marriage in South Africa. It was a direct response to the Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie case, where the...
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  • Laurie Ackermann (category Judges of the Constitutional Court of South Africa)
    the precedent for the subsequent legalisation of same-sex marriage in Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie. In January 2004, upon turning 70, Ackermann retired...
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  • Equality Project cases (now known as Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie). The court rules that the common-law definition of marriage and the Marriage Act are...
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  • women and against younger children. Minister of Home Affairs and Another v Fourie and Another (2005) — the denial of marriage to same-sex couples is unfair...
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  • below lists the judgments of the Constitutional Court of South Africa delivered in 2005. The members of the court at the start of 2005 were Chief Justice...
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  • Marriage Act, 1961 Recognition of Customary Marriages Act, 1998 Civil Union Act, 2006 Minister of Home Affairs and Another v Fourie and Another [2005] ZACC 19...
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    The Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition is a Minister in the Cabinet of South Africa. The portfolio of Trade, Industry and Competition, formed...
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