Senior Associate.

Tina Power.

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Tina is a Senior Associate at Power & Associates.

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Tina Power

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.

Tina's CV

Amplifying voices for change.

About Tina.

Overview.

Tina Power is an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa and a Senior Associate at Power & Associates. She holds B.A., LL.B. (with Distinction), and LL.M. in Human Rights Advocacy and Litigation degrees from the University of Witwatersrand.

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 a Senior Associate at ALT Advisory (2020-).

Tina focuses on constitutional and administrative law, equality, inclusion, and child law, and information rights and media law, with a particular interest strategic and test case litigation, access to justice, children’s rights, online harms reduction, and equality and non-discrimination.

Tina has a keen interest in understanding how intersectionality can be used to strengthen institutions, reduce sexual violence, and promote equality.
Professional Affiliations.
- Attorney of the High Court of South Africa, (with Right of Appearance) admitted on 10 March 2020.
- Member of the Legal Practice Council (Membership Number: 47754).
Academic Qualifications.
- B.A., LL.B. (with Distinction), LL.M. in Human Rights Advocacy and Litigation (University of the Witwatersrand).
- Currently completing an MSc in International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford.
Judicial Clerkships.
- Justice Nonkosi Mhlantla at the Constitutional Court of South Africa (2019).
Recent Publications / Presentations.
- Presented at the Internet Governance Forum on the intersection of disinformation and other online harms (2022).
- Presented at Media Monitoring Africa’s Media Freedom Week on Unpacking Artificial Intelligence: Freedom of Expression, Media, Access to Information and Privacy (2022).
- Presented at a Web Rangers gathering during Child Protection Week focusing on what privacy means for children (2022).
- Tina Power, ‘New law protects women against online abuse,’ (22 February 2022).
- William Bird and Tina Power, ‘Social media needs Rapid Information and Communications Task Team,’ (17 July 2022) Daily Maverick.
- Avani Singh & Tina Power, ‘Understanding the privacy rights of the African child in the digital era‘, (2021) 21(1) African Human Rights Law Journal 99-125.
- Co-Author, Guruli et al., ‘Access Denied: Internet Access and the Right to Education in South Africa’ Report (29 September 2020).
- Presented at the South African Human Rights Commission Colloquium on access to education for undocumented learners, 26 March 2018.
- Presented at the National Consultation on Monitoring Goal 16 in South Africa hosted by the African Policing Civilian Oversight Forum in partnership with the United Nation Development Program, 19 July 2017.
- Contributor, Basic Education Handbook, SECTION27 and others (2017).
- Tina Power, ‘The Politics of Law: The Changing Role of Public Interest Litigation in the Search for Openness and Accountability’ (2018) University of the Witwatersrand LL.M Dissertation.