Abstract
When should financial interests bar someone from election to or service in Parliament? This article critically analyses the case law on the Constitution’s provisions on pecuniary interests and offices of profit. These cases are seeing the High Court sculpting new law out of old stone. The article is structured both chronologically and thematically, and explores the case law’s litigational and political context, and its relationship to pecuniary interest registers, as well as its jurisprudential value. Ultimately, the Court is found to be grappling with—and somewhat at sea in — fixing workable and consistent purposes for the constitutional provisions, especially given the need to fit these provisions within the broader values of parliamentary and electoral law and practice. The article concludes by assaying and proposing reform options.
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