SALC’s Rule of Law work is integrated within its other programmatic areas and focuses on the following objectives:

• To challenge encroachments on judicial independence.
• To challenge practices where the executive seeks to encroach on the powers of parliament or the judiciary.

On-going cases:

Lesotho: Conduct advocacy and litigation to address unlawful arrests and military detention.

Precedent cases:

Lesotho: Support wife of late Brigadier Mahau to argue against the setting aside of the findings of the SADC Commission of Inquiry into Lesotho.
Botswana: Challenge interpretation of Constitution which allows President discretion to appoint High Court judges.
Swaziland: Challenging the constitutionality of the Sedition and Subversive Activities Act.
Swaziland: Challenging the constitutionality of the Suppression of Terrorism Act.
Swaziland: Challenging lawyer and editor’s arrest and detention for contempt of court.