Franny Rabkin Legal correspondent

Franny Rabkin is the Sunday Times legal correspondent. She has clerked at the Constitutional Court, practiced as an attorney and has been a legal journalist for more than 15 years.

Franny Rabkin Legal correspondent
DA and EFF case on VAT hike is ‘entirely without merit’, says Didiza

Speaker of parliament says there was no illegality in the process followed by its finance committees

Franny Rabkin Legal correspondent
Suspending VAT hike would have ‘severe and far-reaching’ consequences: ...

The DA is seeking to ‘reframe a political disagreement as a constitutional crisis’, says finance minister in court papers

Franny Rabkin Legal correspondent
Judge candidate Dawn Norton grilled by JSC about R17m theft at her firm

Attorney Dawn Norton closely questioned about why her firm waited three years to report misappropriation of trust funds to Law Society

Franny Rabkin Legal correspondent
Government rejected BEE objections from big law firms, court papers reveal

Statistics from Legal Practice Council reveal legal sector is disproportionately white-owned

Franny Rabkin Legal correspondent
Thabo Bester approaches ConCourt over which court, civil or criminal, should ...

But the substance of complaints regarding his conditions in prison are yet to be considered, let alone decided, by any court

Franny Rabkin Legal correspondent
Struck off advocate turns to ConCourt after being barred from entering court ...

Senzo Wiseman Mkhize 'continues to come into the court buildings ... demanding a right of appearance'

Franny Rabkin Legal correspondent
New insolvency court celebrated by legal community

The new court is good news for the economy and puts South Africa on a par with the rest of the world, say insolvency specialists

Franny Rabkin Legal correspondent
Clash over impeachment of judges

If two panels are going to decide that the constitution means opposite things, it may be argued that rationality demands they should at least say why.

Franny Rabkin Legal correspondent
AfriForum 'protected by SA's rights to freedom'

State would have to prove 'hostile intent' in attempt to prosecute Afrikaner group after controversial visit to US.

Franny Rabkin Legal correspondent
'New system needed to judge judges'

Pending JSC case could have significant consequences for how the commission goes about it's work