Constitutional litigation and cost orders against the State

An award of costs in litigation serves to reimburse the successful party. In the case of Trustees for the time being of the Biowatch Trust v Registrar, Genetic Sources and others CCT 80/08 [2009] ZACC14 the Constitutional Court (“CC”) accepted what is known as the Biowatch principle with regard to cost orders and litigation against …

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