2kul2Btru: What children would say about the jurisprudence of Albie Sachs

Abstract

In a recent interview framed against the backdrop of his majority judgment in M v The State (Centre for Child Law Amicus Curiae) Justice Sachs stated: ‘I started to see [the children] … as three threatened, worrying, precarious, conflicted young boys who had a claim on the court’ and later, ‘I see the role of judges in the world of diversity and conflict as striving for the protection of human dignity. The [Constitutional] Court is very, very important in terms of the basic norms, standards and values of the society, which continually evolve and develop.’