- For example, the conservative theory that the State President acts ultra vires only when motivated by bad faith or improper considerations will clearly yield a different result from the theory that there must be absolutely clear authority to justify suspension of fundamental rights. The latter theory creates a kind of implied bill of fundamental rights.
- The limitations which the court itself imposed upon the relevant authorities — that they should act within the broad purposes of the law and in good faith — do little to qualify the carte blanche nature of the mandate bequeathed upon the security establishment by Omar.
- For example, Kevin Boyle, Tom Hadden & Paddy Hillyard Law and Stale: The Case of Northern Ireland (1975) and Patricia Hewitt The Abuse of Power: Civil Liberties in the United Kingdom(1982).
- The word ‘ouma’ means grandmother in Afrikaans.
South African Journal on Human Rights
Volume 3, 1987 - Issue 3