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Women's Legal Centre Trust v President (2022)

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and Divorce Act, 1979 were unconstitutional insofar as they failed to recognise and regulate marriages solemnised in accordance with
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and not registered as civil marriages. This failure was inconsistent with various
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Women's Legal Centre Trust v President

Constitutional Court of South Africa
[2022] ZACC 23
[2020] ZASCA 177
Supreme Court of Appeal
[2018] ZAWCHC 109
High Court of South Africa
Western Cape Division
Women's Legal Centre Trust v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others
[2009] ZACC 20
Madlanga J
Majiedt J
Mhlantla J
Theron J
Tshiqi J
Tlaletsi AJ
Constitutional Court of South Africa
Muslim marriages
Marriage Act, 1961
sharia
constitutional rights
Constitution of South Africa
Pule Tlaletsi
Western Cape High Court
Nolwazi Mabindla-Boqwana
South African family law
Constitutional litigation in South Africa
Section Nine of the Constitution of South Africa
"A Brief Analysis of the Judgment in Women's Legal Centre Trust v President of the Republic of South Africa 2022 5 SA 323 (CC)"

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