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An analysis of locus standi in public interest litigation with specific reference to environmental law : a comparative study between the law of South Africa and the law of the United States of America
Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/27926 An analysis of locus standi in public interest litigation with specific reference to environmental law : a comparative study between the law of South Africa and the law of the United States of America Strydom, Ian Malan, Jacobus J. (Koos) bmqingwana@gmail.com Mqingwana, Busisiwe South Africa (SA) United States (US) Environmental law Litigation UCTD Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2012. The concept of standing in public interest litigation has not received much attention and analysis post South Africa’s Constitutional era. This dissertation begins with a discussion of the jurisprudence of the South African courts in relation to locus standi since the early 1900s up until the year 1993. The purpose of the discussion is to illustrate the profound transformation the concept of standing in public interest litigation has undergone after the promulgation of the Constitution. A comparison is then made with the legal position on this question with the United States of America, a country that has been dubbed as the most democratic and liberal in the world which has a Bill of Rights dating back some 200 years. The case law of the US Supreme Court is dealt with, followed by the most important trends of academic criticism of this case law. This forms the basis of an informed comparison in relation to the question of locus standi between the two jurisdictions. It is argued towards the end that the locus standi dispensation in public interest litigation that has emerged in South Africa is the better of the two. Copyright Public Law unrestricted 2013-09-07T12:36:55Z 2012-09-14 2013-09-07T12:36:55Z 2012-04-11 2012-09-14 2012-09-13 Dissertation Mqingwana, B 2011, An analysis of locus standi in public interest litigation with specific reference to environmental law : a comparative study between the law of South Africa and the law of the United States of America, LLM dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27926 > F12/4/366/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27926 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09132012-165829/ © 2011, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | South Africa (SA) United States (US) Environmental law Litigation UCTD An analysis of locus standi in public interest litigation with specific reference to environmental law : a comparative study between the law of South Africa and the law of the United States of America |
| title | An analysis of locus standi in public interest litigation with specific reference to environmental law : a comparative study between the law of South Africa and the law of the United States of America |
| title_full | An analysis of locus standi in public interest litigation with specific reference to environmental law : a comparative study between the law of South Africa and the law of the United States of America |
| title_fullStr | An analysis of locus standi in public interest litigation with specific reference to environmental law : a comparative study between the law of South Africa and the law of the United States of America |
| title_full_unstemmed | An analysis of locus standi in public interest litigation with specific reference to environmental law : a comparative study between the law of South Africa and the law of the United States of America |
| title_short | An analysis of locus standi in public interest litigation with specific reference to environmental law : a comparative study between the law of South Africa and the law of the United States of America |
| title_sort | analysis of locus standi in public interest litigation with specific reference to environmental law a comparative study between the law of south africa and the law of the united states of america |
| topic | South Africa (SA) United States (US) Environmental law Litigation UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27926 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09132012-165829/ |