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The website at the time of this transition carried approximately 700 judgments from South Africa and Namibia. SAFLII is currently in operation from within the Department of Public Law at the University of Cape Town and has been there from December 2013. SAFLII became a member of the Free Access to Law Movement at the Law Via the Internet ...
South African jurisprudence refers to the study and theory of South African law. Jurisprudence has been defined as "the study of general theoretical questions about the nature of laws and legal systems." [1] It is a complex and evolving field that reflects the country's unique legal history and societal changes.
That case concerned the question whether proceedings, which had been brought by former employees of a former South African subsidiary of Cape in England and Wales, should be stayed on the grounds that the proper forum was South Africa. The House did not therefore have to consider the basis of which such an action might succeed.
Countries (in pink) which share the mixed South African legal system. South Africa has a 'hybrid' or 'mixed' legal system, [1] formed by the interweaving of a number of distinct legal traditions: a civil law system inherited from the Dutch, a common law system inherited from the British, and a customary law system inherited from indigenous Africans (often termed African Customary Law, of which ...
Minister of Police v Rabie [1] is an important case in the South African law of delict. It was heard in the Appellate Division on September 3, 1984, with judgment handed down on September 27, 1985. The presiding officers were Jansen JA , Joubert JA , Cillié JA , Van Heerden JA and Vivier AJA .
South Africa's municipalities may, in terms of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, make by-laws for the effective administration of the matters it has a right to administer. The areas within which a municipality may make by-laws are listed in Schedule 4 Part B, and Schedule 5 Part B, of the Constitution.
The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, as the supreme law of the Republic, provides the overarching framework for civil procedure; [6] the Constitution has been responsible for significant changes to civil procedure since its inception in the 1990s, as in, for example, debt collection matters, [7] access to the courts [8] and prescription, in particular with respect to ...
The SALJ was established in Grahamstown in 1884, making it one year older than England's Law Quarterly Review and three years older than the Harvard Law Review. [3] Its first 17 volumes were published under the title Cape Law Journal, before its name was changed to the South African Law Journal in 1901.