Cyber crime is thriving on the African continent. The increase in broadband access has resulted in an increase in internet users. Thus, Africa has become a ‘safe haven’ for online fraudsters. African countries are pre-occupied ...

The Internet has introduced cheap, interactive and instant global communications. However, it has also resulted in new forms of criminal behaviour. Cyber criminals have also become more sophisticated and brazen in their ...

The Child Justice Act 75 of 2008 establishes a separate criminal justice system for child offenders, which is mainly aimed at diverting child offenders from the formal criminal justice system. However, when diversion is ...

In this contribution a number of procedural issues related to sentencing of child offenders, and emanating from the Child Justice Act 75 of 2008, is considered in some detail. As a general rule, the Act requires pre-sentence ...

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 ...

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The article looks at cyber legislation formulated to address cybercrime in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia, India, the Gulf States and South Africa. There appears to be no precise definition for ...