Development of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in the Republic of South Africa
This report serves to analyse the development of assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia in the Republic of South Africa post-apartheid with reference to countries such as Belgium and the Netherlands, where the practice of euthanasia and assisted suicide has been decriminalised and regulated by the law. With the aid of various legal rules and principles which include but are not limited to; International law, relevant Constitutional and legislative provisions, stare decisis, proposed c...
Constitutional Interpretation of Statutes in the Republic of South Africa
The interpretation of statutes or to be more precise, the judicial understanding of the legal rules, deals with those rules and principles which are employed to construct the correct meaning of the legislative text to be applied in legal disputes. In laymen terms, interpretation is about making sense of the total relevant legislative scheme applicable to the situation at hand. Thus, this report will focus on the how the law should be interpreted under our new constitutional dispensation ...