EXERCISE:
Law of delict students:
I’ve read through some of the short passages that you wrote in your previous lecture, regarding a function of the law of delict. Here are some tips that I can give you:
Dear Students
Going through some of the assignments of last year I noticed that most of them had one thing in common: a lack of attention to the technical aspects of the assignment. (more…)
JOINT PRESS STATEMENT
by The South African Law Deans Association, The Law Society of South Africa
and the General Council of the Bar
LEGAL EDUCATION IN CRISIS?
Law Deans and the Legal Profession set to discuss refinement of LLB
degree
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Academic writing: History, herstory, your story
“We spend our years as a tale that is told” (Hofmeyr, 1993)
We all live out stories in our lives, and we understand our lives through the stories we live out, MacIntyre (1997) says. In the same vein our identity can be interpreted as a story we create about ourselves: my identity then depends on the story I choose and live out. Both story and identity are constructed through language: to be identified as a particular person (with a name, for example John), to have various characteristics attributed to oneself (such as kindness), and to refer to oneself (“I said…”, “I meant…”) mean that one is realised in language (Gergen, 1999). The world is shaped by and through language, according to André P. Brink (1998:14), “and most pertinently by and through language ordered as narrative”.
There has, in South African legislation, been a definite movement towards the use of plain language. For example, the South African National Credit Act, No. 34 of 2005 (the “NCA”) and the Consumer Protection Act, No. 68 of 2008 (the “CPA”) deal with and encourage the use of plain language. (more…)
