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Discovering the Rule of Law: Take what you know of the rule of law, and sift what you come across through the prism of light it casts on things to discover its cumulative wisdom. There is no other way.

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Rule of Law Standard: The law should be clear

Rule of Law principle: The law should be clear Rule of Law Standard used to audit compliance with this principle: Publication Law must be contained in a document which enables one to verify its status as law, by identifying the … Continue reading

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Review: The Rule of Law by Chalmers (May 2022)

Shane Chalmers (Adelaide Law School – The University of Adelaide) has written a Chapter entitled :The Rule of Law” for the The Oxford Handbook on International Law and Development, which describes it as of “mythological character”. The progress of Chalmers’s paper … Continue reading

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Restrictive definitions of “maladministration” stymie the Rule of Law

The SA Gazettes are not being published, did you know? The South African Government Gazette has not been published to the public on its usual and only electronic platform, the Government Printing Works www.gpwonline.co.za, since around Saturday 2022/01/29. Its now … Continue reading

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Excipiable Gazette notices fail to shift the onus to the public

Government Gazette Notices and Shifting the Onus – a Systems Perspective The ostensible purpose The ostensible purpose of publishing notices in the Gazette is to inform the public of what its members must or must not do under this or … Continue reading

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