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"The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen" - Tommy Smothers
The FXI launches its law clinic at 17h30 on 23 August 2006 at at the South African Human Rights Commission Conference Centre, 29 Princess of Wales Terrace, cnr York and St Andrews Street, Parktown, Johannesburg. Keynote addresses will be delivered by Commissioner Jody Kollapen, Chairperson, SAHRC and Advocate Gilbert Marcus SC, Johannesburg Bar.
The FXI has recently been registered as a law clinic by the Law Society of the Northern Provinces, which entitles the FXI to operate as a law firm providing free legal services to victims of censorship. The law clinic, housed within the FXI and funded by the Foundation for Human Rights, focusses on violations of expression in poor communities and precedent-setting freedom of expression cases.
The FXI is South Africa's first law clinic fighting for media freedom and access to information. The challenge of the FXI law clinic is to meet the pressing legal needs of both media and non-media victims of censorship in a climate of growing threats to media freedom in South Africa. The FXI law clinic will dispense free legal advice to the public, especially poor communities, on 'gagging' interdicts, defamation, protection of journalistic sources, bannings of marches, hate speech, etc.
The law clinic will train students, young lawyers and community-based paralegals and pursue precedent-setting cases on freedom of expression. The clinic will also provide strategic support for free expression and access to information work in the Southern African region. Attorney Simon Delaney will direct the FXI law clinic. One person has commented on this article. 1. Sub Editor
Nhlanhla Mbatha, Unregistered I am interested in studyig media law. |
