The Law of Succession in South Africa is the third edition of this highly regarded work, providing a comprehensive discussion of all aspects of the law of succession.

Building upon the substantial contributions of Mr Justice Corbett and Professor Ellison Kahn, the new edition brings the law up to date and includes commentary on new developments since the last edition.

The Law of Succession in South Africa provides all-new commentary on developments, especially those brought about as a result of the re-evaluation of legal positions in light of the advent of the constitution.

Road Traffic Safety: Theory and Practice is a definitive guide that culminates exhaustive research and hands-on experience in the realm of road traffic safety. Its primary objective is to empower practitioners to create safer road environments, ensuring maximum safety for all road users, maintenance personnel, and emergency responders.

The second edition has been fully updated to reflect the latest changes to the Road Traffic Act, regulations, and by-laws. This new edition integrates current legal and regulatory developments with practical, field-tested strategies, making it an even more essential resource for road safety practitioners, educators, and consultants. With updated content across all 26 chapters, it ensures professionals stay compliant, informed, and equipped to create safer, more efficient road environments in today’s evolving traffic landscape.

Author Sean Kockott has distilled the latest expertise, research, and data from five continents, encompassing traffic officer training and law enforcement, road design, maintenance, and traffic control engineering, as well as practical challenges such as drunk driving, speeding, and driver fatigue. The comprehensive resource covers a broad spectrum of theory and practical applications, including road emergency preparedness and traffic continuity, road traffic incident management and accident investigations, traffic-calming techniques, traffic signs, and road-marking management.

The guide also delves into road and roadside hazard management, traffic safety measures for roadworks and temporary situations, special event management, roads, and traffic, and re-engineering for road traffic operations and management. By applying the principles outlined in this 26-chapter guide, road traffic safety practitioners can strive for the lowest possible accident and severity rates, from design and engineering to effective implementation and management.

Ultimately, Road Traffic Safety: Theory and Practice is an indispensable reference for educators, students, practitioners, and consultants in road traffic safety management. By leveraging the expertise and knowledge contained within, stakeholders can work collectively to create safer, more efficient road environments that prioritize the well-being of all users.

Students will find this book invaluable in their study of Criminal Procedure.

It introduces readers to the fundamental principles and values underlying this field of law and guides them systematically through the rules of procedure that apply in criminal cases.

Construction Procurement Law in South Africa explains the legal regulation of construction procurement, an area that has, to date, been an unexplored part of South African law.

The book deals with this regulation according to the various stages of the construction procurement process and addresses contradictory rules which give rise to regulatory challenges. Construction Procurement Law in South Africa provides the reader with an overview of the field. Where appropriate, recommendations are made in instances where the law could be amended to bring about better constitutional compliance.

Issues such as the somewhat problematic definition of construction procurement, the contradictory rules in this field, the qualification of construction contracts, the evaluation of construction procurement tenders, preferential procurement in the construction industry and selected remedies are addressed.

Corruption in South Africa: A Legal Perspective offers a comprehensive analysis of the legal and institutional frameworks addressing corruption in South Africa. With eleven insightful chapters covering the international anti-corruption landscape, domestic legislation, the impact on human rights, public procurement, money laundering, and the critical role of civil society, courts, and commissions of inquiry, this book is an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand the challenges of corruption in South Africa and the legal battle against it.

Designed for academics, policymakers, legal practitioners, students, and the general public, this groundbreaking work sheds light on a crucial issue facing the nation today. It is written in a style and language that make it accessible and easy to understand even for those without any legal background.

This updated Basic Guide to Criminal Procedure explains the law of criminal procedure in understandable language and with reference to the rights in the Constitution of South Africa. Useful discussions of relevant cases are included throughout the book. The important forms used in criminal procedure are also provided as annexures at the back of the book. This book is a valuable resource for paralegals, police officers, traffic officials and other law enforcement officers who deal with criminal procedure every day and who must understand and implement the law.

Zimbabwe’s Constitution of 2013 provides for multi-level government at national, provincial and local level. This book explores the nature, evolution and future of this multi-level system of government against the background of international best practices.

Provincial and Local Government Reform in Zimbabwe: An analysis of the Law, Policy and Practice considers key questions about the multi-level system of government and shows how it radically differs from the old Lancaster House constitutional order.

The roles that provincial and local governments, as well as traditional leaders, fulfil in the new order are examined, the reforms needed to implement the system are outlined, and lessons to be learnt from other countries with multi-level governments are considered.

This book aims to aid the realisation of Zimbabwe’s constitutional goals of development, democracy and peace through effective multilevel governance and contributes to the international discourse on decentralisation and the role of subnational governments in Africa.

This book is the first South African work on this crucial new tool for the successful investigation and prosecution of crime.

It introduces readers to the biological principles of DNA and emphasises the importance of the chain of custody and pre-trial disclosure. It also looks at the process that a DNA-sample has to go through before a DNA test result can be produced, as well as an explanation of test result interpretation.

The meaning of a DNA match is explained, as well as aspects of population genetics, statistical calculations and DNA databases.

This book provides law enforcement officials with the essential legal knowledge and practical acumen needed for the performance of their duties.

The focus of this volume of Acta Juridica - Foreign Direct Investment and the Law: Perspectives from Selected African Countries - is the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and the law, within the context of FDI in Africa and the role of the Agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).

The book is a compilation of essays by authors who are specialists from across the spectrum of the law, bringing together their diverse contributions under the banner of foreign direct investment. More specifically, the authors consider the law and foreign direct investment from an African perspective, both regionally and country-specific, in the context of bilateral investment treaties, property law, the legal integration of business law, the role of investment and regulatory policies, dispute resolution, tax incentives and labour regulation.

Private Law in a Changing World honours the work of Professor Danie Visser and celebrates his return to research after almost a decade as Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town. It considers the ways in which the law of obligations has evolved in response to external forces in both the recent and remote past – or, to switch perspectives, the high degree of internal coherence and continuity which it has maintained over time despite the operation of such forces.

Leading scholars of legal history and private law from six jurisdictions consider topics drawn from across the law of contract, delict/tort and unjust/unjustified enrichment.

Their insights shed light on contemporary debates around the world regarding the value of doctrinal scholarship, and on the debates regarding the decolonisation of private law currently unfolding in South Africa.

This book is a comprehensive reference manual which will teach students and practitioners how to interpret contracts in four easy steps.

It illustrates how studying the contract from a sound rational and scientific base enables one to confidently interpret contracts, taking the guesswork out of deciding which factual and legal elements should be considered.

A Reasonable Man: Essays in honour of Jonathan Burchell is a collection of essays published in honour of Jonathan Burchell in recognition of his commitment to the academe and his strong sense of loyalty to the institutions in which he has worked, particularly to students and colleagues.

The breadth and impact of his research in the fields of both delict and criminal justice are attested to by the esteemed multidisciplinary scholars who contributed to this work.

This book examines sexual contact and abuse from a purely scientific and medical perspective.

The book covers:

• the recently updated and relevant legislation
• the sexual biology (anatomy and physiology) of the body, especially related to understanding medical aspects of injury and sexual contact, how and when injuries are caused, and how these relate to findings and their consequences
• the critical aspects of medical forensic examinations including incident history, clinical examination technique, medical findings, evidence collection, special laboratory investigations and medical reports for court

The cadre of forensic nursing as a professional scope of nursing has recently been accepted by the Nursing Council and is now beginning to emerge, and legally in this country such nurses are now allowed to examine sexual abuse cases, issue reports and give testimony provided they undergo an accredited training programme in sexual abuse medicine. In addition, medical and legal professionals need to understand, interpret, and present sexual medical evidence appropriately in sexual offences cases.

This book will serve as a ready reference for the understanding and interpretation of the sexual biology and medicine, both in the medical practitioner’s consulting room and the courtroom.

This book provides law enforcement officials with the essential legal knowledge and practical acumen needed for the performance of their duties.

This book discuss some fundamental changes in South African legal education. One of these changes is the introduction at first year level of a course in the basics of the law and the development of legal skills. At several universities, Roman law will be taught to students at first year level. Roman law is both foundation and basic superstructure of South African private law. This new work promotes a proper understanding of Roman legal development and is an essential study guide for students of Roman law.

Refugee Law in South Africa cutlines the existing law relating to refugees as reflected in South African legislation and its growing body of refugee law jurisprudence as at 2022, while also paying heed to relevant international law, which remains central to today’s regime of international refugee protection and international jurisprudence.

The topics covered in Refugee Law in South Africa include a detailed analysis of the refugee definition in South African law, the process of applying for refugee status determination, and the rights of refugees and asylum seekers.

The book examines how immigration law and refugee law in South Africa can be reconciled and concludes with durable solutions for refugees in South Africa.

This collection aims not only at honouring Lourens du Plessis in the traditional Festschrift style, but also to engage with his thinking, critically or otherwise, and to reflect on how his thinking can be applied to different areas of the law.

This book contains tributes to Professor Johann Neethling, as well as essays on areas of the law in which he worked.

The essays in this volume disseminate original research by recognised scholars on a wide array of disciplines in which Professor Neethling has an interest.

A Practical Guide for Legal Support Staff provides basic information about various aspects which legal secretaries, legal support staff, paralegals and candidate attorneys will encounter in carrying out their duties in a law firm or similar environment. While being an easy-to-read and user-friendly textbook, the emphasis is placed on acquiring the necessary practice management skills. It includes practical examples of the various forms required for different processes and documents.

Content

• The legal profession
• The attorney’s office
• Communication
• Accounts
• The South African judiciary
• Civil court documents and procedures
• Debt collections
• Administration of estates
• Legal instruments
• Notarial documents
• Conveyancing
• Annexures: Practical examples of the various forms required for different processes

An introduction to Family Law in Zambia is an instrumental addition to the texts on Family Law in Zambia, it discusses key legislative reforms including the Children’s Code Act, the Anti-Gender Based Violence Act, the Matrimonial Causes Act of Zambia and the Marriage (Amendment) Act of Zambia. The book further discusses key Supreme Court decisions that have immensely transformed the field of family law. An introduction to Family Law in Zambia thus provides a comprehensive, up-to-date and reliable guide for students and law practitioners.

The book is designed to equip undergraduate students and students preparing for the legal practitioner’s qualifying exam with necessary knowledge required for family law practice. The book incorporates chapter summaries and provides a guide on approaching questions on family law to reinforce student learning

In 1998, the first edition of Legal Drafting: Civil Proceedings was written to bridge the gap between the academic study of law and its practical application insofar as the preparation of court documents is concerned. Drawing on his experience in coaching pupils at the Bar, the author explains elementary matters and poses useful reminders to more experienced practitioners. The second edition of Legal Drafting: Civil Proceedings has been updated to address changes in the law. It now includes a section on the preparation of documents for arbitrations as well as an extended chapter on the all-important task of preparing heads of argument.