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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

This research deals with an evaluation of the standard form procurement contracts in the South African Police Services ,which is a government department.