Browsing PER: 2015 Volume 18 No 7 by Title
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Introduction to virtual property: lex virtualis ipsa loquitur
(2015)This article serves as an introduction to the concept of virtual property and also to very briefly note the relevance of virtual property in modern society. A universally accepted definition of virtual property is hard to ... -
Protecting the foundation and magnificent edifice of the legal profession: reflections on Thukwane v Law Society of the Northern Provinces 2014 5 SA 513 (GP) and Mtshabe v Law Society of the Cape of Good Hope 2014 5 SA 376 (ECM)
(2015)The High Court decisions in Thukwane v Law Society of the Northern Provinces 2014 5 SA 513 (GP) and Mtshabe v Law Society of the Cape of Good Hope 2014 5 SA 376 (ECM) dealing with the question whether a parolee could be ... -
RAF v Sweatman (162/2014) [2015] ZASCA 22 (20 March 2015) A simple illustration of the SCA's statutory misinterpretation of section 17(4)(c) of the road accident fund act 56 of 1998
(2015)In Road Accident Fund v Sweatman (162/2014) [2015] ZASCA 22 (20 March 2015) (hereafter Sweatman) the Supreme Court of Appeal was faced with the interpretation of section 17(4)(c) of the Road Accident Fund Act 56 of 1998 ... -
Realisation of a child's right to a basic education in the South African school system: some lessons from Germany
(2015)Education has, since the beginning of time, been regarded as the formal process by which society conveys its accumulated knowledge, skills, customs and values from one generation to another. Today, education is a human ... -
Rethinking terra nullius and property law in space
(2015)With a new era dawning with regard to access to space and an increase in the number of nations capable of reaching and exploiting space, the field of space law as a whole needs to be re-evaluated. One such area where current ... -
The universal jurisdiction of South African criminal courts and immunities of foreign state officials
(2015)Under the "complementarity" regime of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the jurisdiction of the ICC is secondary to the jurisdiction of domestic courts. States Parties, not the ICC, have the primary ... -
The viability and constitutionality of the South African national register for sex offenders: a comparative study
(2015)Section 42 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act 32 of 2007 established a National Register for Sex Offenders where the particulars of all offenders guilty of sexual transgressions against ... -
When the judiciary flouts separation of powers: attenuating the credibility of the national prosecuting authority
(2015)The stature of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has been subverted through highly publicised political interference by the executive. Beginning with the marathon legal entanglements of the current South African ...
