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Latest Edition: Volume 57 2024
Articles
The best interests of the child and the right of interested third parties to parental responsibilities and rights: RC v HSC 2023 4 SA 231 (GJ)
Mildred Bekink
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Powers of the Registrar of the Health Professions Council to institute investigations under the Health Professions Act 56 of 1974
MA Kwinda
M Labuschaigne
M Slabbert
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Appraising the regulatory framework of the new South African Deposit Insurance System
Matsietso Agnes Matasane
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Secondary strikes and their proportional impact on both the primary and secondary employer
ME Manamela
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“Reflecting back” on public participation in the judicial appointment of the South African Chief Justice?
Nomthandazo Ntlama-Makhanya
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Re-thinking Ex Post Facto Environmental Authorisation in South Africa: Insights from 2022 NEMA Amendment
Jean-Claude N. Ashukem
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Dismissing the blanket approach of interdicting strike brutality: A discussion of Commercial Stevedoring Agricultural and Allied Workers’ Union and Others v Oak Valley Estates (Pty) Ltd and Another [2022] ZACC 7
Fanelesibonge Mabaso
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The ongoing battle for secure tenure for non-owners in light of Grobler v Phillips
Zsa Zsa Boggenpoel
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Tinashe v University of Limpopo: Turfloop Campus 2023 ZALMPPHC 57. In the ‘presence’ of the Commissioner: Is there a need for an amendment to the Justices of the Peace and Commissioners of Oaths Act 16 of 1963?
Ciresh Singh
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Transformative constitutionalism and the fault requirement of the common law of personality
CJ Visser
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The doctrine of proportionality: A proposed solution to human rights infringements in sports adjudication
Bianca van der Merwe & Rian Cloete
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Can a successor comparator be used in an equal pay claim under Section 6(4) of the EEA?
Shamier Ebrahim
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Language conundrum in higher education institutions in South Africa: One step forward or two steps back?
Dr Anzanilufuno Munyai
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Exploring the sensitive interplay between labour law and competition jurisprudence: Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (PTY) Ltd v Competition Commission of South Africa & Another [2024] ZACC 3
Simbarashe Tavuyanago
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Physical violence: crime or cultural protégé?
J Le Roux-Bouwer & CP Museka
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