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The appropriateness of the reasonableness standard in ensuring the effective realisation of socio-economic rights in South Africa
Mini Dissertation (LLM (Socio-Economic Rights))--University of Pretoria, 2022.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/90357 The appropriateness of the reasonableness standard in ensuring the effective realisation of socio-economic rights in South Africa Pillay, Rani totofiduli2@gmail.com Fiduli, Toto Jeremiah UCTD Transformative constitutionalism Reasonableness standard Inadequate social welfare services Socio-economic rights South Africa Law articles SDG-01 Law articles SDG-10 Law articles SDG-16 Mini Dissertation (LLM (Socio-Economic Rights))--University of Pretoria, 2022. It has been over 22 years since the Grootboom matter was adjudicated by the Constitutional Court and not much transformation has been achieved. Millions of South Africans continue to live under extreme poverty due to inadequate provision of social services. This situation may be attributed, to some extent, to the way the Constitutional Court has interpreted and enforced socio economic rights. Ngang explains that the court is faced with a challenge of enforcing socio-economic rights while respecting the separation of powers. This is precisely why the court adopted the reasonableness standard in Grootboom to adjudicate socio-economic rights, as opposed to scrutinising whether the measures adopted realise the rights. Van der Berg argues that when the courts adjudicate socio-economic rights claims, they should scrutinise whether the state allocated a reasonable budget for the progressive realisation of the rights. The state priorities can be evaluated by assessing the adequacy and effectiveness of resource allocation to fulfil the rights. In that way, the court will ensure that the state allocates resources reasonably within its available resources to progressively achieve socio-economic rights. It is against the background of the criticism of the Constitutional Court’s approach in adjudicating socio-economic rights cases that the present study is undertaken. rz2025 Public Law LLM (Socio-Economic Rights) Unrestricted SDG-01: No poverty SDG-10: Reduced inequalities SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions 2023-04-05T06:20:24Z 2023-04-05T06:20:24Z 2023 2022 Dissertation * S2023 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/90357 en © 2022 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 | UCTD Transformative constitutionalism Reasonableness standard Inadequate social welfare services Socio-economic rights South Africa Law articles SDG-01 Law articles SDG-10 Law articles SDG-16 The appropriateness of the reasonableness standard in ensuring the effective realisation of socio-economic rights in South Africa |
| title | The appropriateness of the reasonableness standard in ensuring the effective realisation of socio-economic rights in South Africa |
| title_full | The appropriateness of the reasonableness standard in ensuring the effective realisation of socio-economic rights in South Africa |
| title_fullStr | The appropriateness of the reasonableness standard in ensuring the effective realisation of socio-economic rights in South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | The appropriateness of the reasonableness standard in ensuring the effective realisation of socio-economic rights in South Africa |
| title_short | The appropriateness of the reasonableness standard in ensuring the effective realisation of socio-economic rights in South Africa |
| title_sort | appropriateness of the reasonableness standard in ensuring the effective realisation of socio economic rights in south africa |
| topic | UCTD Transformative constitutionalism Reasonableness standard Inadequate social welfare services Socio-economic rights South Africa Law articles SDG-01 Law articles SDG-10 Law articles SDG-16 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/90357 |