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Browsing Research Articles (Centre for Child Law) by Issue Date
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(CRIMSA, 2008)Restorative justice is a well understood concept. Internationally, its theory and practice have been substantially documented, and it has withstood critical analysis. There has been a movement amongst even those that would ...
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(CRIMSA, 2009)Children do not commit the most crimes. The available official statistics reveal the reality that they make up a small number of the offenders committing serious, violent crimes. The number of children in prison, whilst ...
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(Juta Law, 2009)This article charts the development of a child law jurisprudence that is emerging in Eastern and Southern Africa. The article records how judgments are beginning to make reference to the United Nations Convention on the ...
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(The Verloren van Themaat Centre for Public Law Studies, UNISA, 2010)This article explores the restorative justice jurisprudence of Justice Albie Sachs. The judgments highlighted are Dikoko v Mokhatla, the Port Elizabeth Municipality v Various Occupiers and S v M (Centre for Child Law as ...
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(Juta Law, 2010)This article explores girls' socio-economic rights fulfilment in South Africa. After setting out the international law context, the article turns to the lived reality of girls in this country through an examination of their ...
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(The Verloren van Themmat Centre for Public Law Studies, UNISA, 2012)Na abstract available.
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(2012)South Africa’s criminal justice system has traditionally provided protection for the rights of three categories of persons, namely perpetrators, victims and witnesses – both adults and children. In recent years, however, ...
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(Malawi Law Society, 2012)The year 1994 marked the beginning of a new constitutional era for Malawians in general but, most importantly, for children as the future custodians of the Malawi nation. Those who were born in 1994 by international standards ...
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(Juta Law, 2013)The minimum age of criminal capacity in South Africa used to be seven years of age, one of the lowest in the world. The Child Justice Act raised that age from seven to 10 years, and retained the rebuttable presumption of ...
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(Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), 2013)Hierdie artikel ontleed onlangse regspraak aangaande die reg op basiese onderwys. Die "vier A-skema", wat deur 'n voormalige spesiale rapporteur op onderwys van die Verenigde Nasies voorgestel is en deur die Komitee op ...
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(Institute for Security Studies, 2013)This case note considers the automatic review of child offenders’ cases. Adult offenders’ cases go on ‘review in the ordinary course’ in limited circumstances, but section 85 of the Child Justice Act aims to provide ...
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(Institute for Security Studies, 2013-09)The Constitutional Court recently confirmed an order for the forfeiture of a house from which an unlawful shebeen had been run for years (Van der Burg and Another v National Director of Public Prosecutions).1 In deciding ...
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(Elsevier, 2014-11)In 2013 there are still thousands of children in South Africa attending dilapidated mud schools, schools lacking sanitation, and schools without electricity. The situation took a positive turn in 2009 when the government ...
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(University of Pretoria, Institute for Strategic Studies, 2014-12)The Constitutional Court recently declared the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act 2007 (Act 32 of 2007) unconstitutional in its requirement that the names of child offenders be automatically ...
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(Juta Law, 2015)In an early judgment of the Constitutional Court, S v Williams, Justice Langa found that judicial whippings were unconstitutional because they violated young offenders’ rights to dignity and humane treatment. Former ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2015-02)This article explores the arguments for and against victims‟ mitigating opinions on sentence. It describes a recent South African appeal case, compares it with a similar New Zealand appeal court judgment, and then ...
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(Institute for Security Studies, 2015-12)This case note reflects on the approach that should be adopted by sentencing courts when imposing sentences on child offenders who turn 18 during proceedings. The Western Cape High Court recently considered the application ...
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(Temple University School of Law, 2016)The good news of Roper v. Simmons1 reached South Africa immediately after the decision was handed down in 2005. Child justice advocates in South Africa read the judgment with great interest and saw the judicial nod of ...
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(Institute for Security Studies, 2017)In recent years, schools have borne the brunt of protesters’ frustrations with the lack of access to services in South Africa. A 2016 investigative hearing by the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) explored ...
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(Sage, 2018-08)No abstract available.
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