Browsing Masters Degrees (Constitutional & Human Rights Litigation) by Title
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A human rights analysis of posthumous reproduction in South Africa.
(2018)Advances in the field of medicine are consistently posing difficult questions to the law and society. This is because of the propensity of these medical advances to alter the limits of what is and is not possible, and ... -
The ICC's jurisdictional limitations and the impunity for war crimes in the DRC : a plea for the establishment of a special criminal tribunal.
(2012)The cruelty and scope of the widespread criminality of humans in the world, which was a feature of the past century, was fuelled by scientific progress, egoism and humanity's power of destruction. The criminal consequences ... -
The implementation of human rights principles in post apartheid South Africa : the question of an international standard.
(1999)No abstract available. -
Implementing a permissive regime for assisted dying in South Africa : a rights-based analysis.
(2015)No abstract available. -
International legal protections for combatants in the South African armed conflict.
(1988)The African National Congress (ANC) is engaged in an armed conflict with the South African Government for control of South Africa. ANC combatants are being prosecuted under South African criminal law as rebels, a process ... -
Judicial independence in South Africa : a constitutional perspective.
(2012)This dissertation seeks to explore the judiciary as an independent and separate arm of government. In doing so, this dissertation attempts to provide a holistic analysis of the constitutional and legislative framework that ... -
Mandatory reporting : the legal protection of child victims of trafficking for the exploitation of child labour in South Africa.
(2014)On the 29th July 2013 the Prevention and Combating of Trafficking in Persons Act 7 of 2013 (hereafter referred to as the “Trafficking Act”) was published, criminalising trafficking in persons and associated crimes as ... -
A minimum core content to the right to health for HIV-positive persons under South Africa's transformative constitution.
(2014)This dissertation is an evaluation of the concept of a minimum core content to the constitutional right to health, with particular reference to HIV-positive persons in South Africa. The analysis involves an assessment ... -
Pre-admission legal education in South Africa : an assessment of the dominant patterns influencing the transmission of legal knowledge.
(1998)The purpose of this study was to narrate the major influences shaping the construction and transmission of legal knowledge in South Africa. The paper contends that these influences revolved around the role of the state, ... -
Privatisation and its impact on human rights : a case study of the Zambian privatisation programme, 1991-2001.
(2006)The study also provides an overview of the impact of privatisation on human rights. To accomplish this objective, case studies of Zambia were undertaken within the concept of the social and economic impacts, seeking to ... -
Prospect of merging the South African Human Rights Commission and Commission for Gender Equality into a single human rights body.
(2021)A decade after the introduction of Chapter 9 institutions supporting democracy, the Ad Hoc Parliamentary Committee appointed to review these institutions found that all except the South African Human Rights Commission ... -
Public protector or paper tiger? personality, politics and performance: an analysis based on precedent.
(2021)Since the inception of the post-Apartheid era, the Public Protector has found its root of empowerment in legislation (the Constitution and the Public Protector Act), which primarily constructs it as an independent and ... -
Seeking tenure security: an analysis of the Communal Land Tenure Bill and its purported promise to give effect to section 25(6) of the Constitution.
(2022)Since the demise of apartheid, land reform has been one of the greatest challenges facing the democratic dispensation. Section 25(6) of the Constitution provides that “a person or community whose tenure of land is legally ...