Associate Director.
Tina Power.
Tina is an Associate Director at Power & Associates.
Recent work.
Leading urgent litigation at the Constitutional Court of South Africa in a matter concerning the performance of Presidential obligations.
Leading litigation seeking to redefine the intention test for sexual violence in South African law.
Preparing legal submissions and research on children’s rights domestically, regionally, and before the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child.
Amplifying voices for change.
About Tina.
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Tina is an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa and an Associate Director at Power & Associates. She holds B.A., LL.B., and LL.M. in Human Rights Advocacy and Litigation degrees from the University of Witwatersrand. She is currently completing a Master’s degree in International Human Rights Law at Oxford University.
Tina specialises in constitutional and strategic litigation, law reform and legal advisory, and research with a focus on responses to gender-based violence, fostering substantive equality and meaningful inclusion, protecting children’s rights, promoting information and expressive rights, and advancing accountability and transparency.
She has a specific interest in access to justice, intersectional gender equality, online harms reduction, and using strategic pathways at domestic, regional, and international levels to advance and protect human rights.
Tina has worked closely with victims and survivors of gender-based violence and civil society organisations working on gender rights, as well as activists, journalists, and international institutions which include UN agencies and UN mandate holders. She has litigated in multiple courts in South Africa, including the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court of Appeal, multiple divisions of the High Court, the Equality Court, and Magistrates Courts.
Tina has also prepared and presented law reform submissions in Parliament and has made submissions to various UN bodies, including the Human Rights Committee, the Committee on the Rights of the Child, and various Special Rapporteurs.
Before joining Power & Associates, Tina received the Section27-Students for Law and Social Justice Fellowship where she worked on matters relating to the right to basic education (2016). Thereafter, Tina completed her articles of clerkship at the Legal Resources Centre in Johannesburg (2017-18) as a Bertha Foundation Justice Fellow working on constitutional law matters. Following her articles, Tina clerked at the Constitutional Court of South Africa (2019, Justice Nonkosi Mhlantla).
Tina presently also acts as an Associate Director at ALT Advisory (2020-), a public interest advisory firm associated with Power & Associates.
Working for a sustainable future.
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