The Women’s Legal Centre is a non-profit, independent law centre that seeks to achieve equality for women in South Africa. Justice is largely inaccessible to poor women, particularly black women, and the Centre plays an important role in litigating in their interest and providing them with access to free legal advice. It has been responsible for various land-mark judgments in the South African courts, including judgments relating to government accountability in the context of violence against women. At the Centre, Ms Bornman conducts constitutional and impact litigation in the areas of violence against women, and women’s sexual and reproductive health rights. She also advocates for law and policy reform on behalf of the Centre, and as a member of non-governmental coalition groups. She holds an LLB and LLM in human rights from the University of Stellenbosch.