Faculty of Law: Recent submissions
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RA Le sueur v eThekwini Municipality 2013 JDR 0178 (KZP): an environmental law reading
(Juta Law Publishing, 2014)Drawing on earlier scholarly works that deal with the legally relevant interface between local government and the constitutional environmental duties of the state, this case comment ventures into an outline of the factual ... -
Climate change, public trusteeship and the tomorrows of the unborn
(Juta, 2015)The impacts of climate change on human and ecological systems and the increasing volatility of life situations demand of scholars to critically evaluate governments' protection of the natural resource base and the interests ... -
Fiat lux! Deriving a right to energy from the African Charter on Human and People's Rights
(Juta Law Publishing, 2013)The African continent is plagued by energy poverty, which refers to the lack of access to electricity and a reliance on traditional biomass for cooking. The linkage between access to modern energy services and development ... -
Legal reception in the AU against the backdrop of the monist/dualist dichotomy
(Institute of Foreign and Comparative Law, 2015)The relationship between international and domestic law is traditionally viewed through the lens of the monist/dualist dichotomy. While monists view international and domestic law as two sides of the same coin and therefore ... -
A role for local government in global environmental governance and transnational environmental law from a subsidiarity perspective
(Institute of Foreign and Comparative Law, 2015)This article advances a conceptual view of the role of local government in global environmental governance (‘GEG’) and the system of transnational environmental law (‘TEL’). The underlying hypothesis is that a ... -
Onrus en geweld : 2014 (1)
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Land matters and rural development : 2014(1)
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Criminal procedure : recent cases
(Juta, 2014)A summons or a written notice to appear in court may provide for the payment of an admission of guilt fine by the accused (s 57(1) of the Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977). Upon payment of such a fine the accused is, ... -
Answers to the questions? A critical analysis of the amendments to the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 with regard to labour brokers
(Juta, 2014)Temporary employment services (TESs), or labour brokers as they are more commonly known, have been used in South Africa since the 1950s, but they were not regulated by the Labour Relations Act 28 of 1956 (1956 LRA) in force ... -
Rethinking global environmental law and governance in the Antrhopocene
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)The word Anthropocene describes a new geological epoch that follows the Holocene epoch. It is the signifier of the period in which people have a devastating and overwhelming impact on the earth and its systems. The ... -
Nuclear energy in Africa: regional initiatives for expansion
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)The African continent’s energy situation is characterised by below-average levels of access to electricity and an above-average dependence on traditional biomass as a primary household energy source – a situation widely ... -
The adequacy of the Mauritian biosafety framework
(Cambridge University press, 2014)This article analyses the Mauritian regulatory framework on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and highlights its shortcomings, with the aim of improving the regulation of the approval and monitoring of the use of GMOs ... -
The Heat is on: local government and climate governance in South Africa
(Cambridge University press, 2014)Departing from the fact that climate change poses localized effects, this article crit- ically considers from a legal perspective the role of local authorities in the South African government’s response ... -
Legal comparison, municipal law and public international law : terminological confusion?
(Institute of Foreign and Comparative Law, 2013)The ever-increasing interaction between and intertwining of municipal law and public international law have profound consequences for legal comparison. This is particularly evident when one looks at the overlapping of a ... -
The future of corporate liability for extraterritorial human rights abuses: the Dutch case against Shell
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Vonnisbespreking : 'n perspektief op die impak van die Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act 28 van 2002 op voorheen bestaande regte
(Litnet Akademies, 2014)The skewed race-based land distribution patterns which characterised pre-1994 South Africa also found full expression in access to, and the allocation and use of, minerals in South Africa. The Constitution of the Republic ... -
Die repudiëring van 'n erfenis deur die insolvente erfgenaam - 'n vervreemding of nie?
(Litnet Akademies, 2014)Die aangeleentheid wat hier aandag geniet, is wat die regsposisie is indien 'n insolvente erfgenaam voor die sekwestrasie van sy boedel 'n erfenis repudieer. Die doel van die ondersoek is om onlangse regspraak aan die hand ... -
Konstitusionalisme in Suid-Afrika
(Litnet Akademies, 2014)Teen die agtergrond van 'n veelbewoë staatsregtelike geskiedenis is konstitusionalisme deur die 1993- en 1996-Grondwette in die Suid-Afrikaanse regsorde ingevoer. Konstitusionalisme is 'n term wat, as deel van die globale ... -
Reflections on the South African Code of Banking Practice : aantekeninge
(Juta, 2014)The Code of Banking Practice (hereafter the "code"), which in its current format applies from 1 January 2012, arguably forms one of the most important influences on the modern bank and customer relationship in South Africa. ... -
Die kwynende belang van die begrip "wettige betaalmiddel" binne 'n vinnig veranderende betalingslandskap : aantekeninge
(Juta, 2014)Die einde van die kontantera in Suid-Afrika is moontlik nog nie heeltemal so naby as wat dikwels aangekondig word nie: "to paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the demise of cash are greatly exaggerated" (Williams "2012 Annual ...
