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Theses and Dissertations (Private Law): Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This dissertation focuses on the use of force during evictions, particularly in the context of mass evictions (where mass evictions are defined as the eviction of a group of people from unlawfully occupied property). The ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)This thesis explores the potential delictual liability of non-vaccinating parents in South Africa for the harm caused to another by failing to have their child vaccinated. The South African common-law delict is explored ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This mini dissertation focuses on the provisions of section 10(12) (only regarding inherent deceptiveness) and section 10(13) (regarding deceptiveness through use) of the Trade Marks Act. It provides an interpretation of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021-08)Colonialism and apartheid have resulted in African law occupying an inferior position in the South African legal system compared to Roman-Dutch law and English common law, which are both recognised as forming the South ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Perhaps one of the most interesting and topical discussions to emerge quite contentiously within the legal purview in recent decades is the subject of comparative brand advertising. Comparative brand advertisements explicitly ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020-07)Special and Differential Treatment (S&DT) under the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been pivotal in aiding Developing Countries adapt to WTO rules. S&DT provisions under WTO law, afford Developing Members favourable or ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)The thesis examined civil society organisations’ use of public interest litigation as a tool to promote and protect the right to basic education of children in South Africa, and considered what learning can be extrapolated ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)In the advent of the current dispensation, South Africa’s Constitution elucidates that customary law is in parallel with common law under section 39 of the Constitution,1 in light to this contention, the study begs to claim ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)This dissertation examines whether the lack of ready access by trustees to a codified set of their fiduciary duties is contributing to poor governance of trusts and whether setting out these duties in the Trust Property ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)In this research the dissolution of the universal partnership is viewed through multiple lenses from ancient Roman law to modern insolvency and customary law. As the universal partnership is constantly developing, adapting ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Freedom of testation is distinct from the right of a testator to nominate the executor of his choosing. Regulation 910 allows for the administration of deceased estates by the surviving spouse, person related by consanguinity ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)To contextualise, the problem with foster care in South Africa dates back to the early 2000s. In 2002, the then Minister of Social Development publicly indicated that relatives caring for orphans could seek to regularise ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)No abstract
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Technological advances in the medical domain are critical in finding effective diagnostic and therapeutic instruments for curing genetic conditions. These advances include developing diagnostic tools used to diagnose such ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)No abstract
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)It is surmised that the Maintenance of Surviving Spouses Act 27 of 1990 can be classified as a very profound, yet acceptable limitation on a married person’s right to freedom of testation. This research provides an exposition ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)This thesis argues that the implementation of inclusionary housing in South African law will affect property rights in the form of landownership and expected earnings. By invoking the non-arbitrariness test that was adopted ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)This thesis investigates whether liability regimes for purposes of claiming for damage caused to the environment in South Africa are effective, and provides a general view of the relevant concepts, and identifies the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)Are the restrictive legislative mechanisms of the Patents Act and the Competition Act sufficient to enable the State to fairly regulate the exercise of pharmaceutical patent rights in trying to realise the right to healthcare ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)This dissertation is animated by an interest in the investigation required to establish whether a specific work, be it a literary work, artistic work or published edition, created prior to the enactment of the current South ...
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