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(Women's Health and Action Research Centre, 2021-04)The article assesses the legal and policy frameworks that have an impact on adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health rights (ASRHR) in East and Southern Africa (ESA), confirming the interconnectedness of the ages of ...
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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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(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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(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, 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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(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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(Pretoria University Law Press, 2019)In December 2018, the Centre for Child Law hosted a conference under the theme “Imagining children constitutionally: 20 years of strategic litigation and advocacy”.
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(Pretoria University Law Press, 2021)This contribution provides an overview of children’s rights adjudication in Zimbabwe with a specific focus on emerging jurisprudence under the 2013 Constitution. After a summary of Zimbabwe’s performance in implementing ...
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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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(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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(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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(Educor Holdings, 2018-12)Educating a child with special needs or disability in Nigeria continues to raise concerns of a lack of quality. While education is provided for in the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria, it is seen as more of an obligation than ...
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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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(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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(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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(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, 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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(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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(Pretoria University Law Press, 2019)The South African Constitutional Court is often lauded for its application of best interests in its judgments. This article acknowledges the positive aspects of the Court’s approach, especially in the earlier cases, but ...
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