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The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) is a human rights organisation based in South Africa with offices in Johannesburg (including a Constitutional Litigation Unit), Cape Town, Durban and Grahamstown. It was founded in 1979 by a group of prominent South African lawyers, including Arthur Chaskalson, Felicia Kentridge, and , under the guidance of American civil rights lawyers Jack Greenberg and Michael Meltsner, then Director-Counsel and former First Assistant Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund respectively.

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  • Legal Resources Centre (de)
  • Legal Resources Centre (en)
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  • Das Legal Resources Centre (LRC), deutsch etwa „Rechtliches Ressourcenzentrum“, ist eine Non-Profit-Bürgerrechtsorganisation in Johannesburg. Sie wurde 1979 gegründet, um Benachteiligte in Rechtsfragen zu unterstützen. Sie wird in Südafrika auch als law clinic (etwa „Rechtshilfestelle“) bezeichnet und ist die größte ihrer Art im Land. Die Gründung der Organisation initiierten zwei gegen das damalige Apartheidsystem eingestellte Rechtsanwälte, Arthur Chaskalson und Felicia Kentridge. (de)
  • The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) is a human rights organisation based in South Africa with offices in Johannesburg (including a Constitutional Litigation Unit), Cape Town, Durban and Grahamstown. It was founded in 1979 by a group of prominent South African lawyers, including Arthur Chaskalson, Felicia Kentridge, and , under the guidance of American civil rights lawyers Jack Greenberg and Michael Meltsner, then Director-Counsel and former First Assistant Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund respectively. (en)
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  • Das Legal Resources Centre (LRC), deutsch etwa „Rechtliches Ressourcenzentrum“, ist eine Non-Profit-Bürgerrechtsorganisation in Johannesburg. Sie wurde 1979 gegründet, um Benachteiligte in Rechtsfragen zu unterstützen. Sie wird in Südafrika auch als law clinic (etwa „Rechtshilfestelle“) bezeichnet und ist die größte ihrer Art im Land. Die Gründung der Organisation initiierten zwei gegen das damalige Apartheidsystem eingestellte Rechtsanwälte, Arthur Chaskalson und Felicia Kentridge. (de)
  • The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) is a human rights organisation based in South Africa with offices in Johannesburg (including a Constitutional Litigation Unit), Cape Town, Durban and Grahamstown. It was founded in 1979 by a group of prominent South African lawyers, including Arthur Chaskalson, Felicia Kentridge, and , under the guidance of American civil rights lawyers Jack Greenberg and Michael Meltsner, then Director-Counsel and former First Assistant Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund respectively. The LRC is a generalist public interest law firm that engages in litigation and other activities across a wide range of focus areas, including the full range of rights in the Constitution of South Africa. The LRC has litigated many of South Africa's landmark human rights cases since its establishment, including major cases resisting apartheid injustices and cases under the new Constitution after 1994. These include S v Makwanyane (abolishing the death penalty), Government of the Republic of South Africa v Grootboom (establishing the justiciability of socio-economic rights), the Treatment Action Campaign case (compelling government to provide anti-retroviral drugs to prevent transmission of HIV at childbirth) and the silicosis class action (South Africa's largest class action, against the major players in the gold mining industry, culminating in a multi-billion Rand settlement to compensate black mineworkers). The LRC has produced more judges than any other law firm or public interest law centre, all appointed after 1994. They include the first head of the newly created Constitutional Court, Arthur Chaskalson, and the former President of the Supreme Court of Appeal, Lex Mpati, as well as many others. (en)
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