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Constitutional Court of South Africa


Case CCT 25/03


Marie Adriaana Fourie First Applicant
Cecelia Johanna Bonthuys Second Applicant
versus
Minister of Home Affairs First Respondent
Director-General: Home Affairs Second Respondent


Decided on: 31 July 2003



Judgment



Moseneke J:


Introduction

[1]The applicants seek leave to appeal directly in terms of Rule 18 of the Rules of this Court, against the judgment and order of Roux J made on 18 October 2002 in the Pretoria High Court. Roux J dismissed their application and ordered that the applicants and The Lesbian and Gay Equality Project, which intervened as amicus curiae, pay the respondents' costs jointly and severally,[1] such costs to include those


  1. The respondents have since abandoned the costs order made in their favour against the amicus curiae.