The Application by the Constitutional Assembly to Certify a New Constitutional Text in Terms of Section 71 of the Constitution of South Africa, 1993

Notice by the Association of Law Societies of the Republic of South Afica in terms of rule 15(3) and direction 4 of the directions issued by the President of the Constitutional Court of 13 May 1996. The objection to the certification of the constitutional text refers to the failure of the text in section 178 to provide for the separation of powers between the legislature, executive and judiciary, with appropiate checks and balances to ensure accountability, responsiveness and openness, the failure of the text in section 74 (1) to provide for special entrenchment of the Bill of Rights, etc.