Diergaardt et al. v. Namibia

Comment:

7 individual opinions were submitted, signed by eleven members: Abdalfattah Amor (dissenting) Nisuke Ando (dissenting) P.N. Bhagwati, Lord Colville, Maxwell Yalden (dissenting) Elizabeth Evatt, Cecilia Medina Quiroga (concurring) Elizabeth Evatt, Eckart Klein, David Kretzmer, Cecilia Medina Quiroga (concurring) Rajsoomer Lallah (dissenting) Martin Scheinin (concurring)

Substantive issues:

• access to public services
• discrimination on other grounds
• discrimination on the ground of language
• equality before the courts and tribunals
• fair trial
• freedom of opinion and expression
• minorities
• minorities, right to enjoy own culture
• self-determination
• taking part in the conduct of public affairs

Substantive articles:

• 1
• 14 (1)
• 19 (2)
• 25 (a)
• 25 (c)
• 26
• 27

Procedural issues:

• interim measures

Procedural articles:

• 1