The use of Stalingrad tactics and the abuse of process

dc.contributor.advisorDe Villiers, Wium P.
dc.contributor.emailangeliquefryer24@gmail.comen_US
dc.contributor.postgraduateFryer, Hester Angelique
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-12T13:17:46Z
dc.date.available2025-02-12T13:17:46Z
dc.date.created2025-05
dc.date.issued2024-10
dc.descriptionMini Dissertation (LLM (Procedural Law))--University of Pretoria, 2024.en_US
dc.description.abstractHe, who is called to justice, is set out to delay justice. The purpose of a trial should be to seek truth and achieve justice. However, one cannot fulfil the purpose of a trial if your day in court never comes. Some matters never make it to trial due to constant delays that occur. Whether it be systemic delays or deliberate delays. Systemic delays or those resulting from overloaded court schedules can lead to unreasonable postponements. Unfortunately, many accused exploit these delays with tactics designed to evade responsibility. It goes without saying that justice delayed, is justice denied. The delaying tactics are often referred to as Stalingrad tactics, where an accused uses every manoeuvre available to oppose, obstruct, or delay the efficient and effective determination or finalisation of matters. By using these tactics, an accused often tries to invoke the remedies of Section 35(2)(d) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 19996 or Section 342A of the Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977, in particular the extraordinary remedy of a permanent stay of prosecution. However, courts are, more often than not, sceptical to grant a permanent stay of the prosecution when the delay is due to the accused individual’s own doing. This aspect touches the concept of abuse of process which will also be dealt with in my dissertation. This dissertation focuses on the Stalingrad tactics and looks at how former President Jacob Zuma made use of the Stalingrad tactics in his corruption case and further related cases. I then further evaluate how the courts have dealt with the Stalingrad tactics. The study evaluates how the courts could ensure that an accused using Stalingrad tactics will not escape justice and abuse court processes.en_US
dc.description.availabilityUnrestricteden_US
dc.description.degreeLLM (Procedural Law)en_US
dc.description.departmentProcedural Lawen_US
dc.description.facultyFaculty of Lawsen_US
dc.description.sdgNoneen_US
dc.identifier.citation*en_US
dc.identifier.doiDisclaimer Letteren_US
dc.identifier.otherA2025en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/100792
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoria
dc.rights© 2023 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.
dc.subjectUCTDen_US
dc.subjectSustainable Development Goals (SDGs)en_US
dc.subjectStalingrad tacticsen_US
dc.subjectDelaying tacticsen_US
dc.subjectPermanent stay of the prosecutionen_US
dc.subjectSystemic delaysen_US
dc.subjectDeliberate delaysen_US
dc.subjectUnavoidable delaysen_US
dc.subjectSpeedy trialen_US
dc.subjectAbuse of processen_US
dc.subjectAdversarial systemen_US
dc.subjectInquisitorial systemen_US
dc.subjectUnreasonable delayen_US
dc.subjectEstoppelen_US
dc.titleThe use of Stalingrad tactics and the abuse of processen_US
dc.typeMini Dissertationen_US

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