An attempt is made in this book to address the need for sound ETD practices and to provide practical guidelines in order to assist ETD learners and practitioners in adapting to the new education and training paradigm, which integrates the needs of the learner and ETD practitioner with organisational needs. This book is also available in eBook format. Purchase this eBook from Van Schaik or from Kalahari here.

This book introduces students to the general principles of contract law with specific application to South Africa. It integrates the common law, statutory law and constitutional perspectives. The text supports learning and the development of independent academic skills through various learning features. This edition includes a full new chapter addressing the Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008.

The law affects us all, and even your most basic day-to-day choices and actions have legal implications. Yet few people have much knowledge of the law or understand complicated legal terminology – and lawyers’ fees are beyond many people’s reach.

This book will provide you with the necessary information on a wide range of legal issues that may impact on your daily life – at work, in the home, on the road, in the marketplace, and in the courtroom.

Written by experts specifically for the layperson, the book’s everyday language is free of obscure legal jargon. It is easily understandable, informative and essential for each and every household in South Africa.

What’s new in the third edition?

This new edition includes new or expanded information on parental rights and responsibilities; custody issues and adoption; running a business; companies and close corporations; debt review; traffic offences and accidents; the Consumer Protection Act and the National Credit Act.

By the time this publication went to print it seemed that the world's financial and economic systems might be on the brink of 'going broke'. At the same time, the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement was going global. Thousands of mostly (yet not exclusively) young people were taking to the streets in the financial centres of countries across the globe, protesting and showing their disillusionment with the state of affairs in the world. This book is also available in eBook format. Purchase this eBook from Van Schaik here or from Kalahari here.

The casebook on the South African law of persons provides clear and concise analysis of the facts and principles enunciated by the courts on the law of persons. It contains commentary and extracts from cases referred to in The South African law of persons. This book is also available in eBook format. Purchase this eBook from Van Schaik here or from Kalahari here.

This practical guide comes at no better time - a South African response to the Health Professions Council of South Africa's policy document to make bioethics, human rights and health law a 10 per cent portion of examinable core curriculum for all students in health sciences faculties. It provides students from year one to completion of study, as well as all health practitioners, with the theory and practical application necessary to understand and apply bioethics, human rights and health law.

This bilingual casebook provides the reader with excerpts of judgments that illustrate the most important aspects and underlying principles of South African criminal procedure. It also contains a section on international and transnational criminal matters.

A summary of the facts and important issues precedes each case excerpt. The excerpts are followed by a critical note evaluating and explaining the relevance and importance of the judgment. The method employed by the authors in their selection of cases reflects a principled approach to the subject. All introductory and explanatory notes are in English and Afrikaans and Afrikaans judgments are followed by an English translation.

This book will be of invaluable assistance in the study of the dynamic field of criminal procedure. It can be used as a companion to the Criminal Procedure Handbook 9th edition by Joubert (ed) et al.

Employment Rights deals with all the issues that may arise during the existence of an employment relationship, from the moment an employee applies for a job, to the moment the relationship is terminated.

Topics covered include the nature, scope and effect of employment contracts, unfair labour practices, discrimination, affirmative action, unemployment insurance, health and safety in the workplace, and skills development.

This volume is a companion to three others (Dismissal, Collective Labour Law, and Labour Litigation and Dispute Resolution), which together provide a comprehensive overview of the entire body of current labour law.

The reworked and updated new edition of this widely-prescribed bestseller has been written specifically for second year students following a first course on the subject. Extensive use is made of examples and references to case law and the authors take cognisance of and accommodate the varying needs and teaching approaches at different universities.

As with the previous edition, this textbooks endeavours to provide a picture of the new law of property, and therefore chapters concerning the protection of rights in property in terms of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, are included.

Principles of the interpretation of contracts in South Africa is a comprehensive reference manual which will teach you how to interpret contracts in four easy steps by encouraging you to study the contract from a sound rational and scientific base. By studying the presented theoretical principles you will learn how to confidently interpret contracts, taking the guesswork out of deciding which arbitrary factual and legal elements should be considered when interpreting the contract.

This is the fourth edition of the book entitled, in former editions, Law of Succession: Student's Handbook and Introduction to the Law of Succession. The book is still primarily intended as a textbook for students in the law of succession. However, the nature of the book has changed to such an extent through its different editions that a more general title for this edition was considered justified.

Since the previous edition a number of important developments in the law of succession have taken place, especially through case law. These include the influence of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (particularly the Bill of Rights) on freedom of testation, the extension of the application of the Intestate Succession Act 81 of 1987 and the power of condonation of the court at the execution, amendment and revocation of wills. The fourth edition aims at reflecting these and also other developments in the law of succession.

Entrepreneurial law is a dynamic area that changes rapidly. With this edition of entrepreneurial law the authors aim at reflecting these changes. Although there were no major legislative changes to the companies’ act of 1973 or the close corporation Act of 1984, several minor, but significant changes were made to these two important pieces of legislation which are now reflected in this edition.

This work is an introductory guide for students of labour relations and managerial studies. This edition retains explanations of the procedures and processes encountered in this field, including parties to an employment-relations system, individual and