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Analysis of the Women’s Legal Centre Trust case
(Law Society of South Africa, 2020)
The Western Cape Division of the High Court in Cape Town handed down the judgment in the Women’s Legal Centre Trust case on 31 August 2018. It declared that the state is obliged to respect, protect, promote and fulfil the ...
Limitations on the right to freedom of testation
(Sabinet, 2020)
Freedom of testation is a basic right in terms of the South African law of succession and enables a testator (or testatrix) to bequeath assets in a will as they please. The freedom is not completely unrestricted. Limitations ...
An analysis of the rationale behind the distribution of shares in terms of the Islamic law of intestate succession
(Sabinet, 2020)
There are 35 verses in Al Quraan that refer to succession. A daughter
always inherits half the share of a son in terms of the Islamic law of
intestate succession. (See Khan The Noble Qur’an – English Translation of
the ...