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Strengthening financial integrity in Nigeria: the national identification harmonization project
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022)
Purpose – Nigeria needs to improve its national identification coverage to support improved anti-money laundering and combating of financing of terrorism and proliferation (AML/CFT) measures. This study aims to examine its ...
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 ...
A comparative study of the South African and Islamic law of succession and matrimonial property with especial attention to the implication for the Muslim woman
(The University of the Western Cape, 1991)
As a Muslim south African trained in South African Roman-Dutch law, I have been exposed to experiences/situations which indicate a conflict between the principles of South African Roman-Dutch law and Islamic law of succession. ...
The new framework planned for the legal recognition and regulation of Muslim marriages in a secular South Africa: From litigation to law reform
(Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University (UIN) Jakarta, 2022)
Muslims, who originate from the East Indies and the Indian subcontinent,
have a history in South Africa dating back more than three centuries.
Attempts by South African Muslims to have their Muslim marriages (nikāḥs)
recognized ...
The trial of civilians before courts martial in Uganda: Analysing the jurisprudence of Ugandan courts in the light of the drafting history of articles 129(1)(d) and 120(a) of the constitution
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2022)
Unlike in the constitutions of other African countries such as
Botswana and Lesotho, where the relationship between the High
Court and courts martial is stipulated, the Ugandan Constitution
1995 (the Constitution) does ...
Addressing wrongful convictions or miscarriages of justice in the BRICS nations
(University of Tyumen, 2022)
For many decades, international human rights law has recognised the danger of wrongful
convictions and miscarriages of justice. It is against this background that measures have
been taken to prevent or combat wrongful ...
The interim and final constitutions and Muslim Personal Law: implications for South African Muslim women
(Stellenbosch Law Review, 1997)
All women face similar status problems in the private and public spheres of life but it is alleged that, as members of a religious community, Muslim women experience another inequality. This double inequality has resulted ...
A Life in Human Rights: A Conversation with Dennis Davis’ London Review of International Law
(Oxford University Press, 2021)
Dennis Davis is Judge of the High Court of South Africa, Judge President of the Competition Appeal Court, and Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Cape Town. In this wide-ranging conversation with Tor Krever, he ...
Fact sheets on decentralisation in Africa
(UTS ePRESS, 2022)
A growing number of African countries are considering or implementing reforms that include forms of decentralisation. At times, these reforms are underpinned by (recent) constitutional change, as in Mozambique (2018), ...
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 ...