Browsing College of Law by Subject "Corporal punishment"

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A comparative legal study of corporal punishment and tri-nation law reform

Greeff, Laetitia-Ann (2021-10-25)

Since 1979 when Sweden became the first country to ban corporal punishment, there has been a steady increase in the number of countries prohibiting physical force as a disciplinary measure against children. To date, ...
Die inhoud van ouerlike gesag, quo vadis?

Venter, Ivanda (2009-08-25)

Through the centuries the parental authority has dwindled from the absolute power of the father to the rights of autonomy of the child. At present in the South African law the parental authority is still largely determined ...
The impact and influence of the constitutional court in the formative years of democracy in South Africa

Maduna, Penuell Mpapa (1997-06)

The objective of this thesis is to assess the impact and influence of South Africa's Constitutional Court in the first two years of our democracy. To achieve this objective, some of the definitive and controversial cases ...
Sentencing the juvenile accused

Cassim, Fawzia (1997-11)

The abolition of corporal punishment in S v Williams and Others 1995 (3) SA 632 (CC) provided the state with the impetus to consider alternative sentencing options. Unsystematic efforts by the government to reform the ...

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