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Unconscionable and irrational: SAPS human resource allocation
(South African Crime Quarterly, 2015)
The Khayelitsha Commission revealed that areas that are predominantly populated by people who are poor and black are systematically allocated only a small fraction of the average per capita allocation of police personnel ...
Pocket Guide to Arrest and Detention in Malawi, Lilongwe
(Paralegal Advisory Services Institute (PASI), Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP), Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR), the Centre for Human Rights Education, Advice and Assistance (CHREAA), and the Community Law Centre (CLC) of the University of the Western Cape, 2015)
This guide is for anyone who needs a quick reference to the laws around arrest and detention in Malawi. This may include police, court clerks, prosecutors, magistrates, paralegals and detainees.
First there is an orientation ...
National Prosecuting Authority Performance
(Dullah Omar Institute, 2018)
The National Prosecuting Authority of South Africa (NPA) was created by legislation which came into effect in August 1998, and became a stand-alone entity in 2002/3, whereas previously it was more closely embedded in the ...
Expungement of a criminal record Crimes committed by a child
(Dullah Omar Institute, 2018)
Expungement removes the criminal record of your conviction from the Criminal Record Centre of the South African Police Service (SAPS). This allows a person to carry on with life without a criminal record being an obstruction ...
Expungement of a criminal record May 2018 Crimes committed by an adult
(2018)
Expungement removes the criminal record of your
conviction from the Criminal Record Centre of the
South African Police Service (SAPS).This allows a person to carry on with life without a criminal record being an obstruction ...
The Constitutional Court of South Africa: Reinforcing an hourglass system of multi-level government
(University of Toronto Press, 2017)
“The supremacy of the constitution and the rule of law” are two foundational
values of South Africa’s 1996 Constitution (s. 1(c)). An independent
judiciary is thus set to play a major role in interpreting and enforcing ...
Protecting animals from mistreatment through private prosecutions in South Africa: A comment on National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals v Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development 2016 1 SACR 308 (SCA)
(Cambridge University Press, 2017)
The general rule in South Africa is that, when an offence is committed, the suspect
has to be prosecuted by a public prosecutor. However, there is an exception
whereby a victim of crime is permitted to institute a private ...
Arrested in Africa: An Exploration of the Issues
(Dullah Omar Institute, 2015)
Recent research and advocacy efforts have drawn attention to the excessive use of and prolonged pre-trial detention in Africa. At any given moment there are roughly 1 million people in Africa’s prisons. Far more move ...
The Criminalization of Torture in South Africa
(2016)
This article describes the politics related to the criminalization of torture in South Africa. It studies the differences between torture as an international crime and as a crime under international human rights law. The ...
Private prosecutions in Zimbabwe Victim participation in the criminal justice system
(Creative Commons, 2016)
Two recent developments have changed the face of private prosecutions in Zimbabwe. Firstly, the prosecutor general had to decide: (1) whether private companies may institute private prosecutions; and (2) whether the ...