Category Archives: Legal Resources Centre

West Point Lodge families sheltered from eviction

Please note that this article is an extract from the Legal Resource Centre’s Annual Report 2012 In February 2011, the Organisation of Civic Rights approached the LRC seeking assistance for approximately 58 families who lived in a Durban inner-city building called West Point Lodge. The LRC represented the occupants in an effort to compel the […]

LRC challenges unlawful detentions in Lindela

Please note that this article is an extract from the Legal Resource Centre’s Annual Report 2012 On 21 February 2012, the LRC re-launched its Immigration Project when it received reports of continued unlawful conduct on the part of immigration officials at the Lindela Repatriation Centre in Krugersdorp, Gauteng. Lindela is the detention facility established by […]

The #mudschools campaign

Please note that this article is an extract from the LRC’s 2012 Annual Report Through the efforts of the LRC during 2010 and 2011, a settlement regarding the upgrading of seven mud schools in the Eastern Cape was reached and an agreement was signed on 4 February 2011. This important case has received extensive press […]

Interpreting our laws to protect our children

Please note that this article is extracted from the Legal Resources Centre’s 2012 Annual report Logan Mosieling v The State In early 2012, the Legal Resources Centre went to court on behalf of the Children’s Rights Project of the Community Law Centre, in the matter of minor children convicted of criminal offences. The Child Justice […]