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Browsing Law by Type "Thesis"
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Jansen van Rensburg, Enelia Cornelia
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
The use of conduit company treaty shopping structures is often regarded as an impermissible erosion of a country’s tax base. For a developing country, such as South Africa, the protection of its tax base is an important ...
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Van Niekerk, Martha Gertruida
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
The 2008 Global Financial Crisis shook financial systems worldwide to their roots and set regulators on a new course post Crisis where the pursuit of financial stability emerged as apex regulatory objective. This new ...
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Baboolal-Frank, Rashri
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
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Kareithi, Monicah Wanjiru
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
This thesis sets out, against a historical background, to establish the legal status of woman-towoman marriages in contemporary Kenya. The phenomenon of woman-to-woman marriage is a form of African customary marriage between ...
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Laurens, Tim Bernardus
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
Substances have been used for medicinal, recreational, and enhancement purposes by numerous population groups since ancient times. This practice is as old as humankind itself with alcohol use in South Africa for instance ...
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Carter, Eileen Izette
(University of Pretoria, 2015)
Research indicates that violence against children with disabilities1 occurs at annual
rates at least 1.7 times greater than for their non-disabled peers. Children with
disabilities are also abandoned more frequently than ...
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Holness, Willene Audri
(University of Pretoria, 2021)
Parents, especially mothers with intellectual disabilities, are at a disproportionately high risk of their children being removed from their care by child protection authorities for alleged child neglect – on the assumption ...
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Eberechi, Oghenerioborue Esther
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
This study investigates the problem of access to justice for female victims of sexual violence
(SV) in refugee camps, using South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda in a multiple case study. The
main argument of this study ...
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Acirokop, Prudence
(University of Pretoria, 2012)
This thesis addresses accountability for mass atrocities. It presents a case study of Uganda that has undergone a two-decade conflict between the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) insurgent group and the national army, the ...
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Van den Berg, Michal Danielle
(University of Pretoria, 2023-12-15)
This thesis delves into the intricate landscape of product labelling legislation in South Africa, shedding light on its inherent inaccessibility concerning product labels and accompanying leaflets. By meticulously examining ...
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Louw, A.S. (Anna Sophia)
(University of Pretoria, 2009-09-14)
The thesis explores the impact of the new Children’s Act 38 of 2005 on the acquisition of parental responsibilities and rights within a newly proposed framework designed for the purpose of reflecting the various ways in ...
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Hugo, Etienne de Villiers
(University of Pretoria, 2007-08-23)
Please read the abstract (Summary) in the section 21backb of this document
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Lugulu, Jonah Agweyu
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
This thesis appraises the Kenya Deposit Insurance Act, 2012 and evaluates its
effectiveness to address moral hazard in banking. While explicit deposit insurance
scheme (EDIS) enhance financial system stability by preventing ...
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Niyi-Gafar, Oluwabunmi Lucy
(University of Pretoria, 2017)
Based on the assumption that water is a human right that the Nigerian government is obliged to fulfil, this thesis begins with a historical overview of the development of a human right to water. This description provides ...
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Sogunro, Ayodele
(University of Pretoria, 2020)
Since the enactment of Nigeria’s Same Sex (Marriage) Prohibition Act of 2013, advocacy for the protection of sexual and gender minorities in Nigeria has grown rapidly. This advocacy often toes a line of legal formalism, ...
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Matsela, Tebello Bernice
(University of Pretoria, 2023)
Colonialism and apartheid were alien forces that changed the trajectory of customary law in the legal systems of South Africa and Lesotho. The effect of this interruption positioned customary law as a secondary legal system, ...
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Masamba, Magalie L.
(University of Pretoria, 2020)
In the past decades, financial crises have recast the spotlight on sovereign debt restructuring (SoDR). Despite decades of discussion on how to reform SoDR, it still raises complex legal tensions. Among these tensions is ...
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Vettori, Maria-Stella
(University of Pretoria, 2006-11-08)
Advancing technology has caused rapid and dramatic changes in the world of work. Labour law systems grounded in the industrial era, with their emphasis on collective bargaining, are not suitable in today’s world of work. ...
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Politis, Alexander
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
This dissertation addresses the most prominent difficulties involved in the determination of
causation in the context of medical law in South Africa. The principal philosophical and
conceptual basis of causation is based ...
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Chofor Che, Christian Aime
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
Cameroon’s Constitution of 1996 sought to put in place a decentralised system of government that would accommodate a diversity of communities, but the country faces a range of serious governance challenges today which the ...