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 ...
This thesis examines the status of amnesties and the duty to prosecute gross and systematic human rights violations in international law. The thesis begins by distinguishing amnesty from other related concepts, such as ...
E-crimes continue to generate grave challenges to the ICT regulatory agenda. Because e-crimes involve a wrongful appropriation of information online, it is enquired whether information is property which is capable of being ...
The Regulation of Gatherings Act 205 of 1993 is a old order piece of legislation,
but gives full recognition to the right to freedom of assembly and expression.
These rights are entrenched in sections 16 and 17 of the ...
This study seeks to determine the effectiveness of detectives in the investigation of housebreaking cases in the Secunda Cluster. Key theoretical concepts such as criminal investigation, housebreaking, evidence and ...
This article discusses the effectiveness of television satellite broadcasting to meet
the needs of individual students. The mixed-method approach – a combination of
qualitative and quantitative research methods – was ...