• "Pay back the money” – a paper on criminal and civil asset forfeiture within South Africa and suggestions for reform 

  Curlewis, L.G. (Emerald, 2024)

  PURPOSE : The purpose of this paper is to bring to light the present civil and criminal asset forfeiture procedures within the South African context and to make suggestions for reform thereof. While there exists and is a ...
• The apportionment of legal costs in South Africa : a comparative analysis 

  Bekker, Thino (Juta Law Journals, 2022)

  Een van die grootste hindernisse wat toegang tot die reg in siviele sake, soos gewaarborg in artikel 34 van die Suid-Afrikaanse grondwet, belemmer, is die toekenning van astronomiese regskoste aan die einde van 'n regsgeding. ...
• Should magistrates take down confessions? 

  Curlewis, Llewelyn Gray; Gravett, W.H. (Willem) (Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Faculty of Law, 2022)

  Section 217(1) of the Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977 (the Act) sets forth the requirements for the admissibility of a confession made by any person in relation to the commission of an offence. Section 217(1)(a) provides ...
• Digital neocolonialism : the Chinese surveillance state in Africa 

  Gravett, W.H. (Willem) (Edinburgh University Press, 2022-02)

  China has developed into a twenty-first-century surveillance state with unprecedented abilities to censor speech and infringe upon basic human rights. The effects of China's digital authoritarianism reach well beyond its ...
• Negotiating the intellectual property protocol under the agreement establishing the African continental free trade area : priorities and opportunities for Nigeria 

  Adewopo, Adebambo; Oriakhogba, Desmond; Okorie, Chijioke (De Gruyter, 2022-02)

  EarlyMarch 2021, following its ratification of the Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA agreement), Nigeria’s National Office of Trade launched a consultative process into issues ...
• Jailed by a "black box" : the impact of opaque algorithms on the right to a fair trial in the United States of America 

  Gravett, W.H. (Willem) (LexisNexis, 2021)

  Ontwikkelings in kunsmatige intelligensie (AI) en masjienleer het daartoe begin lei dat regerings die gesag om openbare funksies te verrig uitkontrakteer aan masjiene. Algoritmiese besluitneming word inderdaad algemeen, ...
• Medical negligence and criminal responsibility - when the court infringes on a medical practitioner's rights to a fair trial 

  Curlewis, L.G. (Law Society of South Africa, 2021-07)

  The application for leave to appeal in S v Van der Walt 2020 (2) SACR 371 (CC) was served before the Constitutional Court (CC) against the judgment of the Mpumalanga Division of the High Court. The facts were as ...
• Emergency remote learning during the pandemic from a South African perspective 

  Baboolal-Frank, Rashri (BMC, 2021-11-02)

  The COVID-19 pandemic created a situation for the implementation of emergency remote learning. This meant that as a lecturer at a traditionalist University of contact sessions, the pandemic forced us to teach remotely ...
• The general traits of millennial law students 

  Gravett, W.H. (Willem) (LexisNexis, 2020-02)

  Elke generasie regstudente bied sy eie uitdagings aan regsdosente wie daarna streef om bevoegde en toegewyde lede van die regsberoep af te lewer. Hedendaagse regstudente vorm deel van die eerste generasie wat ten volle in ...
• The influence of technology on the learning styles of millennial law students 

  Gravett, W.H. (Willem) (LexisNexis, 2020-08)

  Een van die mees algemene verklarings vir die groot generasiegaping tussen milleniers en vorige generasies is die tegnologiese rewolusie, wat 'n paradigmatiese verskuiwing teweeg gebring het in die wyse waarop inligting ...
• Digital coloniser? China and artificial intelligence in Africa 

  Gravett, W.H. (Willem) (Routledge, 2020)

  By using African countries as laboratories to improve its AI-based technologies, China is also reinforcing African governments’ illiberal and authoritarian tendencies.
• Juliana v United States of America : the final frontier for climate litigation in America? 

  Meyer, Yolandi; Gravett, W.H. (Willem) (Faculty of Law, Palacky University Olomouc, 2020-06)

  This article analyses the protracted climate change case of Juliana v United States of America. We consider the history of the case as well as the most recent judgment of the Federal Court of Appeals, which seems to be ...
• The dark side of artificial intelligence : challenges for the legal system 

  Gravett, W.H. (Willem) (Unisa Press, 2020-10)

  The development of artificial intelligence has the potential to transform lives and work practices, raise efficiency, savings and safety levels, and provide enhanced levels of services. However, the current trend towards ...
• Judicial hostility towards international arbitration disputes in South Africa : case reflections 

  Baboolal-Frank, Rashri (Juta Law, 2019)

  The term judicial hostility in this context refers to the courts' reluctance to enforce arbitration awards. Judicial hostility towards international arbitration had found its place in American courts as judges were reluctant ...
• An analysis of sectional title dispute resolution in South Africa 

  Baboolal-Frank, Rashri (Oxford University Press, 2020-12)

  This article aims to explore alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, which are relevant to sectional titles schemes disputes. The alternative dispute resolution mechanisms will be discussed as an innovative trend to ...
• Historical milieu of tribunals in South Africa : the role of church tribunals 

  Baboolal-Frank, Rashri (Cambridge University Press, 2021-01)

  The historical evolution of tribunals in South Africa is important in understanding the stratagem of present-day tribunals. This article attempts to take the reader on a journey from before colonisation to during and after ...
• Effect of an admission of guilt and payment of a fine in terms of section 57 of the Criminal Act 

  De Villiers, Wium P. (LexisNexis, 2019)

  Please read abstract in article.
• The veiled Muslim witness and the accused’s right to a fair trial in adversarial legal systems 

  Gravett, W.H. (Willem) (Juta Law Journals, 2019)

  In a number of recent cases across common-law jurisdictions, female Muslim witnesses have been denied their right to wear the niqab while testifying in court. Ultimately, in each of these cases, the right to a fair trial—and ...
• Post colonialism : a court order that attempts to cure the ills of the past in South Africa 

  Baboolal-Frank, Rashri; Bekker, Thino (Routledge, 2022)

  South Africa, a country that was once colonized, had deliberate and hateful laws pre-democracy, which discriminated against, and segregated races with the intention to divide and conquer territories through marginalization. ...
• Digital neo-colonialism : the Chinese model of internet sovereignty in Africa 

  Gravett, W.H. (Willem) (Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), 2020-06)

  China is making a sustained effort to become a 'cyber superpower'. An integral part of this effort is the propagation by Beijing of the notion of 'internet sovereignty' - China's supreme right to govern the internet within ...

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