National Coalition of Gay and Lesbian Organisations Case: Constitutional Court Press Summary
National Coalition of Gay and Lesbian Organisations Case: Constitutional Court Full Judgment
The National Coalition of Gay and Lesbian Organisations Case - Part 1
1998
National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality and Another v Minister of Justice and Others
Sexual orientation and the right to be different
Justice Laurie Ackerman had written a comprehensive judgment for the Court explaining why the penalisation by the common law of sodomy represented a gross violation of the rights of men freely to express their physical love for each other. Justice Sachs wrote a concurrence emphasising the right to be different and to enjoy equality not through submitting to mainstream pressure to conform, but through