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Advanced Winter School and Conference, 20–21 July 2017: ‘Crossing Boundaries between Public and Private Law’
An Advanced Winter School and conference was organised jointly by the Law Faculties of the University of Cape Town and Leicester University on the theme of Crossing Boundaries between Public and Private Law.
Crossing boundaries workshop, 21 October 2016
This workshop brings together private lawyers and human/constitutional rights lawyers from the UK and South Africa to address the private law liability of public bodies
First project workshop – August 2014
The first project Workshop took place in Cape Town 6-7 August 2014.
ECHR decides ‘O’Keeffe v. Ireland’
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights recently held in O’Keeffe v. Ireland that Ireland breached the Convention rights of a victim of sexual abuse at school who had unsuccessfully sought to hold the Irish State liable under Irish law. The Grand Chamber found violations of both Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment) and of Article 13 (right to an effective remedy)
