Welcome to the Constitutional Court website ("the website"). The purpose of the website is to provide information about the Constitutional Court. The website is owned by the Constitutional Court Trust of Constitutional Hill, Hospital Street, Braamfontein, South Africa.
By accessing and using the website, you the user, are deemed to have read, understood and agreed to the terms and conditions that are set out in this notice. If you do not wish to be bound by these terms and conditions, then you may not access, display, use, download and/or otherwise copy or distribute any of the content of this website.
You agree that your use of this website is for lawful purposes only. You agree that you will not use this website for any unlawful purpose, including but not limited to: the commission of a criminal offence, to gain unauthorized access to other computer systems, for the transmission of unlawful material or in breach of any copyright laws, whether of the Republic of South Africa or of any other country.
Whilst all reasonable care has been taken in the preparation of the content of this website, the Constitutional Court Trust makes no representations and gives no guarantees or warranties of any kind as to the operation of this website, or the accuracy or completeness and currency of any information, content or materials presented on the website. We cannot be held liable for any damages of whatever nature which arise out of: the use of the website; the use of any information, content or materials contained in this website; or any consequences arising out of such use. You are required to verify the accuracy, completeness and currency of all information contained in this website.
The Constitutional Court Trust does not warrant that the functions provided by the site will be uninterrupted or error free, or that the site or the server is free from viruses or other harmful components.
In keeping with section 14 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa of 1996, we respect your rights to informational privacy and data protection. You may use this site without providing us with any personal information. However, in order to register for services available on the site, we will ask you for relevant personal information in order to provide a service to you. We will use such information only for our own internal purposes including: to maintain and update mailing lists and databases; and for research and development purposes.
The Constitutional Court Trust retains copyright and all intellectual property rights in and to this website, including all current and future content that is displayed on the website. This includes but is not limited to all material which is defined to include trademarks, trade names, logos, documents, texts, information, data, drawings, images, icons, logos, photographs, video and audio clips. The Constitutional Court Trust also asserts the copyright of third parties in this regard.
By accessing this website and/or using any of the material made available on this website, you agree that the Constitutional Court Trust provides you with a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited and revocable right to access, display, use, download and otherwise copy the current and future content of the website for your personal, non-commercial and informational purposes only. The limitations placed on the use of all material as defined in paragraph 8 above, extends to that copyrighted to third parties.
You agree that you will use the material available in this website for the purposes set out in paragraph 9 above and will not, without the prior written consent of the Constitutional Court Trust - obtainable from the Webmaster - copy, transmit, sell, reproduce, publish or in any other way exploit the Constitutional Court Trust's intellectual property, or that of third parties, as contained in this website commercially. Your failure to comply with these terms may result in criminal and civil action being instituted against you.
We value comments received from visitors to our site. However, you agree not to transmit any material that is unlawful or harmful, defamatory, abusive, threatening, vulgar or obscene. You remain liable to any third party for your comments, and the Constitutional Court Trust is not liable to any third party regarding the content of your comments.
This website provides links to other relevant websites. The fact that we have such links must not be construed as constituting any relationship or endorsement of the linked third party, and reliance on all information and content provided by the external link is done so at your own risk. You are advised when visiting such websites to refer to such sites' terms and conditions of use.
The Constitutional Court Trust encourages other relevant external websites to link to pages on its site in the interests of extending free access to legal information on the Internet. However we appreciate being notified should you wish to link to our site. To do so, please contact webmaster@concourt.org.za.
The linking website should not remove, change or obscure the Constitutional Court Logo, frame our website content, or otherwise infringe on our intellectual property rights. Linking to our site does not imply any endorsement or relationship with the other site by the Constitutional Court.
The website and all content on the website is provided on an "as is" basis and "as available" basis. It is a term and condition of the use of this site that you expressly agree that the use of the site is entirely at your own risk and that you remain solely responsible for the legality and soundness of any decision you make or action you take as a result of your use of this website and the information provided on the website. The information contained in this website is not intended and should not be construed as legal advice.
The Constitutional Court Trust, its owners, directors, trustees, employees, officials, suppliers, agents and / or representatives shall not be liable for any loss or damage, whether direct, indirect or consequential, or any expense of any nature whatsoever, which may be suffered by you the user, which arises directly or indirectly upon: your use and reliance; your inability to use; or the functionality of the website and / or its content, or of any external website, whether accurate or not.
You indemnify the Constitutional Court trust, its owners, directors, trustees, employees, officials, agents, suppliers or representatives and keep them fully indemnified, from and against any loss or damage suffered or liability incurred in respect of any third party, which arises from your use of this website or the information obtained in the website.
These terms constitute the sole record of the agreement between yourself and the Constitutional Court Trust in relation to the subject matter hereof. Neither you nor the Constitutional Court Trust shall be bound by any express, tacit or implied representation, warranty, promise or the like not recorded herein. These terms and conditions supersede and replace all prior commitments, undertakings or representations, whether written or oral, in respect of the subject matter hereof. No indulgence or extension of time which either you or the Constitutional Court Trust may grant to the other will constitute a waiver or limitation of any of the existing or future rights of the grantor in terms hereof, save in the event or to the extent that the grantor has signed a written document expressly waiving or limiting such rights.
The Constitutional Court shall be entitled to cede, assign and delegate all or any of its rights and obligations in terms of these terms.
All provisions of these terms and conditions are, notwithstanding the manner in which they have been grouped together or linked grammatically, severable from each other. Any provision of these terms and conditions which is or becomes unenforceable in any jurisdiction, whether due to voidness, invalidity, illegality, unlawfulness or for any reason whatever, shall, in such jurisdiction only and only to the extent that it is so unenforceable, be treated as pro non scripto and the remaining provisions of these terms and conditions shall remain in full force and effect.
These terms shall be exclusively governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of South Africa, without giving effect to any conflict of law principles. You hereby consent to the non exclusive jurisdiction of the Witwatersrand Local Division of the High Court of South Africa in respect of any disputes arising in connection with these terms.
