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Ten years of the South African prevention of organised crime act (1999–2009)
(Open Society Foundation for South Africa, 2010)
Organised crime2 is one of the main challenges that governments and intergovernmental
organisations3 are grappling with. Its history, consequences and different forms in South
Africa are well documented4 and fall outside ...
South Africa
(ASSER Press, 2017)
This chapter on South Africa critically analyses the evolution of the concept of the best interests of the child, and specifically how it pertains to the fields of care (custody), contact (access), guardianship and maintenance ...
Faskh (divorce) and intestate succession in Islamic and South African law: impact of the watershed judgment in Hassam v Jacobs and the Muslim Marriages Bill
(Juta&Company, 2014)
This article deals with intestate succession against the background of the complex Islamic legal aspects of faskh and talaq as forms of divorce. It elaborates on the divergent views held by Islamic scholars and explains ...
Muslim Marriage and Divorce in Sri Lanka: Aspects of the relevant jurisprudence
(The Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Legal Studies, 2016)
Muslims form 10 per cent of the Sri Lankan population. The country applies a mixed legal system. For many decades Muslim marriages and divorces have been governed by a separate piece of legislation. Courts in Sri Lanka ...
The problem of private-to-private corruption
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
Corruption has huge detrimental effects, and private-to-private corruption contributes
hugely to this detriment. Its consequences match those of public corruption,
particularly in the contemporary world, when private ...
Confronting corruption: past concerns, present challenges and future strategies
(2017)
The literature on corruption and anti-corruption has mushroomed over the last decade or so. Of course, all research and writing on the problem of corruption and the fight against it are to be welcomed. Regrettably, however, ...
Legal pluralism and the right to family life and the transfer of offenders who are nationals of African countries, within Africa to Africa
(Routledge Taylor Francis Group, 2013)
Globalisation has been accompanied by, inter alia, the movement of people from
their countries of nationality or citizenship to other countries in search of better
opportunities. Some of these people have been convicted ...