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Texas law bans transgender girls from female school sports
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed into law a Bill banning transgender girls from participating in female sports at public schools, joining a wave...
Austria submits draft legislation on assisted suicide
Austria's federal government has submitted a draft law to legalise assisted suicide for seriously ill adults, the Federal Chancellery said last weekend. A CNN...
Albinism killings: Life sentences for three body-part harvesters
The three men found guilty of murdering Albino teenager Gabisile Shabane (13), were handed life sentences by the Mpumalanga High Court (Mbombela) in Middelburg,...
Fresh call for Zimbabwe to outlaw child marriages after teen dies giving birth
The Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) has called upon the government to enact a child protection law that outlaws child marriage. This follows...
High Court rejects Zuma's claims on disclosure of medical information
Former president Jacob Zuma failed in the KZN High Court (Pietermaritzburg) in an application to remove the prosecutor leading the corruption case against him,...
Stringent conditions on claims from Compensation Fund for vaccine side-effects
The occupation injuries and diseases Compensation Fund has clarified its conditions for accepting side-effects from a COVID-19 vaccine as having happened on the job...
Former Gauteng Health CFO fails in bid to hold premier liable in PPE case
Former Gauteng Health Department CFO Kabelo Lehloenya has failed in her third party notice bid to have Premier David Makhura held personally liable in...
Busa seeks declaratory order on mandatory workplace vaccinations
Business Unity SA (Busa), is to seek legal certainty on companies’ right to require their staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19, reports Business Day.
Busa's...
Attorney facing criminal charges and disbarment wins more negligence claims
While the Eastern Cape Treasury is taking extraordinary legal measures to staunch billions of rands in payments for past medico-legal claims, the crippled Health...
ACDP and lobby group plan application to block vaccination of children
A lobby group and the African Christian Democratic Party are jointly preparing an urgent court application to interdict the vaccination of children between the...
ConCourt blocks Mediclinic in North West medical merger
The proposed merger between Mediclinic Southern Africa and Matlosana Medical Health Services in the North West, nearly six years in the making, has once...
Phaahla’s move on jabs for 12-year-olds without parental consent ruffles feathers
Health Minister Dr Joe Phaahla’s announcement that children 12 and older are now eligible for a COVID-19 vaccination without their parents, guardians and caretakers’...
15 years after birth, Western Cape Health found culpable of negligent perinatal care
Western Cape Health was found responsible for negligent perinatal care at a provincial clinic, in a case where a mother sued for damages 15...
‘Medical apartheid’ challenge to restrictions on unvaccinated workers dismissed
A legal challenge to New South Wales (NSW) public health orders that restrict the activities of residents who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19...
Zimbabwe’s ban on unvaccinated workers raises ire
Union leaders have angrily reacted to the Zimbabwean government's announcement on Sunday that people who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 will no longer...
Gauteng Deputy Judge President calls for courtroom COVID-19 lockdown
Gauteng Deputy Judge President Roland Sutherland has circulated a plan to restrict access to the courts to only vaccinated people into courts. And Legalbrief...
SAHRC joins Caster’s battle over IAAF’s Differences of Sex Development regulations
The SA Human Rights Commission (HRC) has filed its submission as third-party intervener before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the matter...
Dispute over transcription costs stalls Gauteng 'right to die' hearing
A “right to die” test case has been stalling for several months due to a dispute about the payment of transcription costs, Die Burger...
New SA strategic frameworks on disability rights gazetted
Two recently gazetted national strategic frameworks have implications for private and public sector obligations in meeting the needs and rights of persons with disabilities,...
Phaahla: No govt mandated vax but also no interference in private sector policies
Health Minister Dr Joe Phaahla has said the government does not intend to make COVID-19 vaccinations compulsory by law. TimesLIVE reports that Phaahla was...
WHO moves to address sexual abuse scandal with policy revamp
The World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed part of its revamped policy to hold staff accountable as well as prevent cases of sexual abuse....
Dickason tragedy: Mom’s mental evaluation to take up to 18 months
The trial date of Dr Lauren Dickason, accused of killing her three children in New Zealand has been set, with the courts allocating around...
Nelson Mandela Bay endocrinologist suspended for sexual assaults
Gqeberha endocrinologist Dr Gregory Hough has been suspended from practising as a doctor for 18 months, reports HeraldLIVE. He was found guilty by the...
Albinism killing for muti: Immunity for state witness accomplices
The man who stood in the Mpumalanga High Court (Mbombela) and confessed to digging up Albino teenager Gabisile Shabane’s body and sawing through her...
Russian court restricts imprisoned Navalny’s ophthalmologist
A Russian court last week imposed one year of restrictions on ophthalmologist Dr Anastasia Vasileya. A Jurist report notes that the sanctions restrict her...
UK nurse pleads not guilty to murder of 8 babies and attempted murder of 10 more
UK nurse Lucy Letby has pleaded not guilty in the Manchester Crown Court to the murder of eight babies and the attempted murder of...
Almost $360m of IMF Covid funding to DRC is missing
Researchers says missing funds, opaque pay practices and poor management hamper the coronavirus response in the DRC, reports Yahoo News. The Congo Research Group,...
SARS recovers R170m in unpaid taxes from illegal COVID-19 contracts
SARS says it has recovered R170m in unpaid taxes, after its pursuit of 52 companies that were awarded R1bn in contracts for COVID-19-related services,...
Human Rights call for end to Tanzanian ban on pregnant students
Tanzania's ban on pregnant students and adolescent mothers attending school has denied tens of thousands of females their right to education, Human Rights Watch...
EU consults on reforms to existing pharmaceutical legislation
The European Commission has begun a public consultation on potential reforms to EU general pharmaceutical law. According to an Out-Law.com report, the review of...
Judgment delayed in Botswana government’s appeal against decriminalisation of gay sex
A Botswana court has postponed ruling on a case in which the government is seeking to overturn a 2019 ruling that decriminalised gay sex,...
Ghana’s draconian anti-gay Bill
Ghana's Parliament is preparing to debate a draft Bill – framed in the guise of “family values” – which seeks to introduce some of...
SCA rejects negligence appeal; recaps on approach to medical expert testimony
The Supreme Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by Gauteng Health against a High Court judgment that found that negligence by Kalafong Hospital...
Canada: Refusal to use preferred pronouns is a human rights offence
A Canadian human rights tribunal has awarded a transgender, non-binary restaurant server $30,000 and ruled refusal to use someone’s preferred pronouns as a human...
SAHRC says mandatory vaccination constitutional but not desirable
The SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has softened its stance on compulsory COVID-19 vaccinations, saying while it felt no enough had been done to...
Public Protector rules hospitals in 4 provinces fail Constitutional standards
The Office of the Public Protector has released the outcome of investigations into the state of more than a dozen public healthcare facilities in...
First US federal ruling upholds hospital's vaccine mandate
In what Jurist notes appears to be the first ruling in the US involving a request for an injunction against a private employer’s COVID-19...
US nurse faces death penalty for allegedly injecting air into patients’ arteries
A former nurse is on trial for the murder of four patients at a Texas hospital in 2017, with the prosecution claiming he purposefully...
Health oversight committee ‘shielded’ Mkhize during Digital Vibes scandal
The Opposition has also slated Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Health for shielding former Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize from being questioned on the Digital Vibes...
SIU report into Digital Vibes: More heads on the block
After a three month delay, President Cyril Ramaphosa has released the Special Investigating Unit report into the multimillion Digital Vibes tender fraud, reports MedicalBrief....