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8 - Remedies for Social, Economic and Cultural Rights

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2021

Kent Roach
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Concerns about manageable remedies have been a major impediment to recognition of socio-economic and cultural (SEC) rights. Part I examines remedies available for SEC rights violations in supra-national and domestic courts including interim remedies, suspended declarations of invalidity and other remands to legislatures, damages, declarations and injunctions. Part II argues that individual remedies should not be rejected because of concerns that they may result in inequitable queue jumping. Part III examines the role that proportionality principles and reasonableness review can play in justifying delays and limits on SEC rights. including in emergencies. Part IV examines South African engagement remedies. Although they can result in consensual and creative agreement, they can also be used as a means to limit rights and authorize evictions. Courts should address inequality of bargaining power including through the use of interim remedies. Part V suggests that South African courts are taking a two-track approach when they combine anti-eviction remedies with more dialogic systemic remedies including engagement. The relation between individual remedies and the minimum core of SEC rights is explored, as is the importance of individual remedies in responding to remedial failure and triggering cycles of reform.

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Remedies for Human Rights Violations
A Two-Track Approach to Supra-national and National Law
, pp. 408 - 453
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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