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Surrogacy, South African style
(International Bar Association Legal Practice Division, 2013)
This article reviews the Act’s provisions concerning surrogacy and raises some questions for consideration.
Law and justice at the dawn of the 21st century: Essays in honour of Lovell Derek Fernandez
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
Essays in honour of Lovell Derek Fernandez, Lawyer, Linguist, Mensch
Deprivation of children's liberty 'as last resort' and 'for the shortest period of time': how far have we come? And can we do better?
(Juta Law, 2013)
Commencing with a brief historical overview of detention of children in South Africa, and legislative attempts to curb its use, this article reviews all forms of deprivation of liberty under the Child Justice Act 75 of ...
Engaging meaningfully with government on socio-economic rights : A focus on the right to housing
(Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2010)
To make sure that service delivery is effective and has a positive impact on people’s quality of life, it is important to have meaningful engagement between communities and the government. South Africa’s Constitution makes ...
Pashukanis on crime and punishment
(University of Pretoria, 2013)
Evgeny Pashukanis deservedly is famous as the author of the so-called
commodity form theory of law. In his Law and Marxism he postulated
that the form of legal relations held the key to the Marxist critique of law
and ...
Service delivery protests, struggle for rights and the failure of local democracy in South Africa and Uganda: parallels and divergences
(Centre for Applied Legal Studies, Wits University, 2013)
Although the two countries are thousands of miles apart, Uganda and South Africa have both
experienced service delivery protests in recent years. The protests have been directed mainly
at local governments, although in ...
Guidelines and principles on imprisonment and the prevention of torture under the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights - how relevant are they for South Africa?
(Faculty of Law, UWC, 2013)
It must be regarded as a peculiarity that the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights makes no specific mention of prisoners’ rights and that these rights have to be inferred from overall reading of the Charter, and ...
The right to health in respect of terminally ill persons in South Africa
(2014)
It is probably true that „death is the great equalizer‟ amongst human beings and that some of its „cousins: illness, dementia, physical debility, and advance age‟2 can ensure a journey marked by severe pain and suffering ...
An analysis of professor Lourens du Plessis’ early (pro-life) and later (prochoice) perspectives on abortion
(Nelson Mandela University, 2016)
Abortion, or termination of pregnancy, albeit in gradations from most to less
restrictive to unrestricted, has always been legally allowed in South Africa. This
questions the need for the introduction of new law. ...
The implications of varying statutory minimum age thresholds for child consent in respect of minors granted majority status through civil marriage in South Africa
(Intersentia, 2018)
South Africa is a young constitutional democracy and developing country.
Its main national laws protecting children, namely, the supreme Constitution
19961 and the comprehensive Children's Act 20052 based on its provisions, ...