THE age of laws is, perhaps, over. As someone put it, ‘When you don’t know what to do, you can always pass a law; it doesn’t cost much and it’s very satisfying. Whether it actually works is another matter.’ This observation could not be more accurate. I say this as a woman and a lawyer who has always had faith in the legal system’s power to deliver justice. At its heart lies the premise that citizenship involves faith in the law to deliver outcomes that restore people — in this case, women — to the wholeness taken away from them when they became victims of injustice.
This is no longer the case. Everywhere one looks, legal systems are being hollowed out.
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