PER: 2018 Volume 21: Recent submissions
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The Duty to Produce One’s Firearm for Inspection in Terms of the Firearms Control Act: The Right to Silence under Siege?
(PER/PELJ, 2018)The right of the arrested and accused persons to remain silent at pre-trial and during their trial are significant to ensuring a fair trial. The purpose of the right to remain silent is to ensure that the state bears the ... -
"The Common Law is … not what it used to be"*: Revisiting Recognition of a Constitutionally-Inspired Implied Duty of Fair Dealing in the Common Law Contract of Employment (Part 3)
(PER/PELJ, 2018)This piece, which is in three parts, will revisit the importation of fairness into the employment contract (outside and independent of the fairness-based provisions of our labour legislation) by a line of Supreme Court of ... -
"The Common Law is … not what it used to be"*: Revisiting Recognition of a Constitutionally-Inspired Implied Duty of Fair Dealing in the Common Law Contract of Employment (Part 2)
(PER/PELJ, 2018)This piece, which is in three parts, will revisit the importation of fairness into the employment contract (outside and independent of the fairness-based provisions of our labour legislation) by a line of Supreme Court of ... -
"The Common Law is … not what it used to be"*: Revisiting Recognition of a Constitutionally-Inspired Implied Duty of Fair Dealing in the Common Law Contract of Employment (Part 1)
(PER/PELJ, 2018)This piece, which is in three parts, will revisit the importation of fairness into the employment contract (outside and independent of the fairness-based provisions of our labour legislation) by a line of Supreme Court of ... -
Metaphysical Anthropocentrism, Limitrophy, and Responsibility: An Explication of the Subject of Animal Rights
(PER/PELJ, 2018)This article undertakes a critical analysis of subjectivity and exposes the metaphysical and anthropocentric quasi-transcendental conditions that give rise to the construct(ion) of the Subject. I locate a critical moment ... -
Monkey selfie and authorship in aopyright law: The Nigerian and South African perspectives
(PER/PELJ, 2018)A photograph taken by a monkey is in the centre of a copyright claim in the famous monkey selfie case in the United States of America. Suing as next friend of the monkey, named Naruto, the People for the Ethical Treatment ... -
New Developments in International Investment Law: A Need for a Multilateral Investment Treaty?
(PER/PELJ, 2018)This work contributes to the global discussion on the desirability of the multilateral investment treaty to ensure coherence in the way foreign investment is protected across the globe. The paper argues that whereas the ... -
Beyond Sexual Binaries? The German Federal Constitutional Court and the Rights of Intersex People
(PER/PELJ, 2018)In a recent judgment, the German Federal Constitutional Court held that it was unconstitutional to require every person's sex to be entered on the birth register, without providing for a third option for intersex persons. ... -
Delivery of the Compulsory Section 129(1) Notice as required by the National Credit Act of 2005*
(PER/PELJ, 2018)In terms of section 129(1) of the National Credit Act 34 of 2005 (NCA), a credit provider first needs to provide a consumer with notice of his default and a list of possible remedies to overcome the default, before enforcing ... -
Frankenberg G comparative constitutional studies – Between magic and deceit (2018 Edward Elgar Publishing UK) ISBN 978 1 78254 897 3 & 978 1 78254 898 0 (eBook)
(PER / PELJ, 2018)This contribution reviews the book by Günter Frankenberg titled Comparative Constitutional Studies – Between Magic and Deceit published by Edward Elgar Publishing in 2018 -
Moosa IA publish or perish. Perceived benefits versus unintended consequences (2018 Edward Elgar Publishing UK)
(PER / PELJ, 2018)This contribution reviews the book by Imad A Moosa entitled Publish or Perish. Perceived Benefits versus Unintended Consequences published by Edward Elgar Publishing in 2018 -
The scope of the powers of the minister of finance in terms of section 48(1)(b) of the customs and excise Act 91 of 1964: An appraisal of recent developments in case law
(Vinti, C. 2018. The scope of the powers of the minister of finance in terms of section 48(1)(b) of the customs and excise act 91 of 1964: An appraisal of recent developments in case law. Potchefstroomse elektroniese regsblad = Potchefstroom electronic law journal, 2018(21):1-25. [http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2018/v21i0a4268], 2018)This paper evaluates the scope of the powers of the Minister of Finance upon a request from the Minister of Trade and Industry to amend Schedule 1 to the Customs and Excise Act 91 of 1964 (hereafter, CEA) in respect of ... -
Modderklip revisited: Can courts compel the state to expropriate property where the eviction of unlawful occupiers is not Just and equitable?
(PER / PELJ, 2018)This article examines whether, to give effect to the section 26 constitutional right to adequate housing, courts can (or should) compel the state to expropriate property in instances when it is not just and equitable to ... -
The constitutionalisation of the test for statutory illegality in South African contract law: Cool ideas v Hubbard 2014 4 SA 474 (CC)
(PER / PELJ, 2018)This paper investigates the constitutionalisation of the test for statutory illegality (the test) in South African contract law, firstly through a careful evaluation of the manner in which the Constitutional Court (CC) ... -
A duty of support for all South African unmarried intimate partners Part I: The limits of the cohabitation and marriage based models
(PER / PELJ, 2018)The democratic Constitutional dispensation has led to the gradual extension of spousal duties of support to unmarried couples who hitherto could not legally claim support from their partners or from third parties who had ... -
An Appraisal of the Functioning and Effectiveness of the East African Court of Justice
(PER / PELJ, 2018)This contribution reflects on the functioning of the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) and judges its effectiveness by assessing the Court's role of ensuring adherence to, the application of and compliance with the East ... -
The protection of children's right to self-determination in South African law with specific reference to medical treatment and operations
(PER / PELJ, 2018)The Children's Act 38 of 2005 provides that children over the age of 12 years can consent to their own medical treatment or that of their children, provided they are of sufficient maturity and have the mental capacity ... -
The right to strike and replacement labour: South African practice viewed from an international law perspective
(PER / PELJ, 2018)South Africa is a member of the International Labour Organisation (hereafter the ILO), an establishment that sets international labour law standards through its conventions, recommendations and expert supervisory committees. ... -
A duty of support for all South African unmarried intimate partners Part 2: Developing customary and common law and circumventing the volks judgment
(PER / PELJ, 2018)Part I of this two-part article argued that post-constitutional developments of the right to support have excluded the largest and most vulnerable sector of South African women – African women in invalid customary marriages ... -
Formal regulation of third party litigation funding agreements? A South African perspective
(PER/PELJ, 2018)In South Africa third party litigation funding agreement as a tool that provides access to justice is not legislated with regard to non-lawyers. This article is based on research conducted to determine whether regulating ...
