Kate O'Regan

thumb Kate O'Regan (born 17 September 1957) is a former judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. From 2013 to 2014 she was a commissioner of the Khayelitsha Commission and is now the inaugural director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford. Quotes Changing the patterns of inequality and injustice, which are still so embedded in South African society even 30 years later, is an ongoing project and a challenging one that requires perseverance, imagination, and commitment. The best thinking happens when you disagree and when people bring a perspective you hadn't considered – one that makes you really think. Justice Kate O'Regan: Making law work for all by Juta and Jacpod 20th March, 2025 As long as we realise that we are not perfect and a lot needs to be changed in a variety of things, we will get there. I think one of the things that has ran through the people who have been in this court is a commitment to human rights; a commitment to changing things for the betterment of all South Africans. SA needs more women on the bench - Judge O'Regan 23rd June, 2009 You cannot build a culture against corruption unless there is a serious commitment to do that. Where there is a lot of corruption in our society, people tend to assume that decisions are taken for corrupt reasons not the reasons in the public interest, and in a democracy we do expect public decisions to be taken in the public interest accordant with our publicly stated values in the constitution, not for reasons of private gain. Tackling corruption within South Africa 26th May, 2022 Human rights start in small places: in the workplace, in the family, in the home, in our organisations — just the ordinary places where human beings are. The way in which we treat people in our ordinary lives, whether it's in our homes, our workplaces, our schools, this is a place where you can start fostering an understanding of what it means to be respectful of human rights. Could We Do More to Secure Human Rights? Interview with Professors Kate O’Regan & Başak Çalı 28th September, 2026 External links Category:Living people Category:1957 births Category:Judges from South Africa Category:Lawyers from South Africa