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From the Community Law Centre to the Dullah Omar Institute: The Path of Engaged Research
(UWC Press, 2020)
Commencing its life as a research, advocacy and constitution-building entity in 1990, the Community Law Centre, later becoming the Dullah Omar Institute, has over the past 29 years played a significant role in the shaping ...
Access to Justice in Kenya in the Context of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 16.3 on the Rule of Law: Lessons for the upcoming 2020 Voluntary National Review Report
(CEDRED Publications, 2020-08)
Kenya was among the various countries that presented a Voluntary National Review Report in 2017. In the context of the Sustainable Development Goal 16.3, a close reading of the 2017 Report shows some strong and weak points. ...
S v Mthethwa: Justice for sex workers in the face of criminalisation
(Routledge, 2020)
In 2017 the Western Cape High Court convicted acclaimed painter, Zwelethu Mthethwa, of the brutal murder of sex
worker, Nokuphila Khumalo. This profile offers a feminist-legal analysis of the judgment and sentence handed ...
Understanding ‘emergency monetary relief’ in the Domestic Violence Act
(Law Society of South Africa, 2020)
Domestic violence is a brutal onslaught against constitutional values and the fundamental right to freedom and security of the person. In S v Baloyi (Minister of Justice and Another Intervening) 2000 (2) SA 425 (CC), Sachs ...
Gender construction in sexual offences cases: A case for fully reviving the Sexual Offences Courts
(Juta, 2020)
Gender inequality, male hegemony and the power dynamics at the
core of patriarchal society enable the high rate of sexual offences
and the low conviction rate of sexual offenders when incidents are
reported. The criminal ...
Normative intersectionality in married women’s property rights in Southern Nigeria
(2020)
The fate of marriage gifts during a customary law divorce is significant for the interaction of legal orders in sub-Saharan Africa, especially in the context of scholars’ fixation with conflict of laws. In analysing this ...
Legal empowerment as a tool for engendering access to justice in South Africa
(Sage, 2020)
This article examines the concept of access to justice and the challenges vulnerable and
marginalised groups encounter in accessing justice. The article further discusses the
recognition of access to justice as human ...
Dirty money as legal fees in Namibia and Zimbabwe: are lawyers laundering proceeds of crime?
(Emarald Publishing, 2020)
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the contentious issue whether lawyers become launderers
when they accept dirty money as legal fees. Lawyers represent criminal defendants who may wish to pay for
their ...
Child soldiers and the defence of duress under International Criminal Law
(Routledge, 2021)
Atrocities committed by children are frequently explained away by arguments of coercion:
children are forced by commanders to participate in acts of extreme violence, threatened
with brutal punishment if they fail to ...
Negotiating settlements in a broader law enforcement context
(Elgar Publishing, 2020-04-08)
This thought-provoking book examines the scope, benefits and challenges of negotiated settlements as an enforcement mechanism in bribery cases, and demonstrates the need for a more harmonized and principled approach to ...