Cassim, Rehana; Madlela, Vela(South African Law Journal, 2017)
The remuneration of directors is a controversial issue in many jurisdictions in light of the global financial crisis and the escalating remuneration packages of directors. One way of managing the escalating levels of ...
A study of silences: as a metaphysics of the law, juridification silences the text of the law in order
to enable an allegorical reading of the law. This silencing of the legal text can only be avoided
through a ...
Workplace violence is reported to be on the increase, and within the South African Police Service, the inherently stressful nature of policing leads to high rates of suicide and violent behaviour. Contemporary investigations ...
Prior to 1994, citizenship was one of the pillars upon which the erstwhile government's
policy of separate development rested. The concepts of citizenship and nationality were
manipulated by the apartheid government to ...
Scholars of human rights and constitutional law have described in great detail the abuses perpetrated by the armed forces and secret services of the United States in the context of the ‘war on terror’. There is copious ...
The article investigates the influence of the Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008 (‘the
CPA’) on the general rule that the advertising or display of goods for sale at a certain price
is an invitation to do business and ...
Section 37C of the Pension Funds Act 24 of 1956 regulates the distribution of retirement fund death benefits in South Africa. This thesis focuses on the distribution of the retirement fund death benefits that the pension ...
De Jong, Madelene(Institute of Foreign and Comparative Law, Unisa, 2007)
It was officially recommended that the South African Family Court should be modelled reasonably closely on, inter alia, the Australian Family Court. Since its inception this court has had a social component which emphasized ...
The principle of legality is often expressed in terms of the maxims nullum crimen sine lege (no crime without law) and nulla poena sine lege (no punishment without law). When the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related ...
This thesis explores the use of domicilium as a criterion in choice of law and
jurisdiction in South African law with special reference to private-law status. In this area
of the law adherence to the status theory has, ...
Executions were discontinued during November 1989. In February 1990 the State
President announced a moratorium on executions. Since 27 July 1990 the
Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1990 effected important changes to the ...
A multidimensional approach, using individual, social structural and process and system theories, is applied to examine the role of drugs in child abuse within the dysfunctional family system. By means of a
saturation ...
This study was conducted in order to gain a better understanding of the phenomenon of drug trafficking with specific reference as to how South African drug mules are used in crossborder drug smuggling. Through media analysis, ...
This study explored the relationship between criminality and substance use. The aim was to discover the influence of two variables, gender and drug type, in the drug-crime nexus. Although research on the drug-crime ...
This dissertation endeavours to determine whether the concepts nationality and citizenship are interchangeable, or whether they each mean something very specific. In order to ascertain where the “origin” of using the terms ...
This article is about duties of a lawyer in a multicultural society like South Africa. South Africa is a multicultural society characterised by among others a constant competition of cultures, values, and norms. At the ...
The scourge of HIV/AIDS is ravaging our communities; many children have lost their parents to this pandemic. The death of parents because of this pandemic has resulted in the emergence of a new phenomenon of child-headed ...