Book Reviews
Book Review – Effective Legal Interviewing and Counselling
by M A (Riette) du Plessis (106 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za "Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends."– Mary Catherwood (1847-1901) The ability of an attorney...
Book Review – Employment Rights
by John Grogan (3rd Edition) (472 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za "Who first invented work, and bound the free and holiday-rejoicing spirit down to that dry drudgery at the desk's dry wood?"– Charles Lamb (1775-1834) This is the third edition of a...
Book Review – Human Resource Management in Public Schools
A Practical Guide by Jaco Deacon (310 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za "Who, with a natural instinct to discern, What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn."– William Wordsworth (1770-1850) The importance of education in South Africa cannot be...
Book Review – Dugard’s International Law
by John Dugard, Max Du Plessis, Tiyanjana Maluwa & Dire Tladi (Fifth Edition) (938 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za "Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations – entangling alliances with none."– Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd...
Book Review – Public Procurement Regulation
by Sope Williams-Elegbe and Geo Quinot (editors) (370 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za "The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else."– William Henry Beverage (1879-1963) Governments around the world...
Book Review – Oil, Gas and Mining Law in Africa
by Thierry Lauriol and Émilie Raynaud (584 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za "We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."– George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) The exploitation of natural...
Book Review – Evidential Aspects of Law Enforcement
by Marga van Rooyen (433 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data"– from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) It has been demonstrated many times in South Africa, that...
Book Review – Finsen’s The Building Contract
A Commentary on the JBCC Agreements (3rd Edition) by Stan Segal (601 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za "When we build, let us think that we build forever."– John Ruskin (1819-1900) In the preface to the second edition of this book (2005), the author...
Book Review – Principles of Market Abuse Regulation
A Comparative South African Perspective by Howard Chitimira (168 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za "Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get."– George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Where there is money, there is mischief....
Book Review – Applied Law for Police Officials
(5th Edition) by Cerita Joubert (603 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za "Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner."– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) According to the South African...
Book Review – Public Interest Litigation in SA
by Jason Brickhill (contributing Editor) (433 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za "The welfare of the people is the ultimate law"– Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Litigation in the public interest has been enabled by the democratic Constitution of South...
Book Review – Scott on Cession
A Treatise on the Law in South Africa by Susan Scott (623 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za "The law regarding cession of actions… presupposes a triangle – a debtor, a creditor who becomes a cedant, and a third party, the cessionary, to whom the benefit...
Book Review: UBUNTU An African Jurisprudence
UBUNTU An African Jurisprudence by T W Bennett, assisted by AR Munro & P J Jacobs (223 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za "The adoption of this Constitution lays the secure foundation for the people of South Africa to transcend the divisions and...
Book Review: The Law of Arbitration
The Law of Arbitration South African and International Arbitration by PAA RAMSDEN (Second Edition) (416 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za "The settlement or the solution of all disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be...
Book Review: Precedents for Applications in Civil Proceedings
Precedents for Applications in Civil Proceedings by Peter van Blerk (772 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za "Then rising with Aurora's light, The Muse invoked, sit down to write; Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline."– Jonathan...
Book Review: Undoing Delict
The South African Law of Delict under the Constitution by Anton Fagan (316 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za "The common law is not to be trapped within the limitations of its past. It need not be interpreted in conditions of social and constitutional...
Book Review: Trust Law in South Africa
By Walter D. Geach Editor: Louise du Toit (553 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za "Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody." – Agatha Christie (1891-1976) The law relating to trusts in South Africa is one of those areas...
Book Review: The Law of the Sea
The African Union and its Member States Editors: Patrick Vrancken and Martin Tsamenyi (867 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za "On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale." – Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744) Taking...
Book Review: Child Law in South Africa (2nd Edition)
Edited by Trynie Boezaart (853 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd - www.juta.co.za "Child! do not throw this book about; Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure." – Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) Not every child...
No smoke without fire: We review Dr John Grogan’s third edition of his important employment law book Dismissal
DISMISSAL (Third Edition) By John Grogan (805 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd | www.jutalaw.co.za "Even I regained my freedom with a sigh." - Lord Byron (1788 – 1824) In American television reality shows "You're fired" is usually uttered with much more intent than...
The Law of Evidence Cases and Statutes by SS Terblance with BC Naudé
Reviewed by Louis Rood. An understanding of the principles of the law of evidence and how they are interpreted and applied in practice is essential to the proper functioning of our courts. Twenty years after this compilation of cases and statutes was first published...
Book Review: Criminal Procedure Legislative Guide by Juta Law Editors
Reviewed by Louis Rood. Primarily aimed at students of criminal procedure, this comprehensive guide to the legislation framing criminal procedure in South Africa will also be welcomed by legal practitioners, judicial officers, law enforcement officials, and crime...
Law of Persons Sourcebook by Trynie Boezaart
Reviewed by Louis Rood. The law relating to persons in South Africa, in all its complexity, diversity and intricacy has undergone significant constitutional reform, and continues to develop and respond to present-day cultural and societal changes. This is reflected in...
Book Review: Criminal Procedure Handbook by J.J. Joubert
Reviewed by Louis Rood. This comprehensive introduction to the fundamental principles and values underlying the rules that apply in criminal cases is an indispensable guide to this area of law. The authors set the context: “Crime is a reality of life, especially in...
Book Review: Property in Minerals and Petroleum by E van der Schyff
Reviewed by Louis Rood. This book is a ground-breaking and comprehensive evaluation of the entire sphere of mineral and petroleum law as it has evolved and been reformed in South Africa. The interconnection of property law with mineral and petroleum law and changing...
Book Review: Criminal Procedure Casebook by Kemp, Watney and Terblanche
Reviewed by Louis Rood. First published in 2010, this second edition of Criminal Procedure Casebook combines in an essential toolkit a selection of 102 of the leading judgments of our courts that illuminate the most important processes and principles of South African...
Book Review: Law of Persons by T Boezaart
Reviewed by Louis Rood. Every individual person is unique in personality, humanity, and being. Yet we all have much in common. We are conceived, we are born, we live and we die. This book, now in its sixth edition, deals concisely but comprehensively with all aspects...
Book Review: Commercial Mediation, A User’s Guide by Brand, Steadman & Todd
Reviewed by Louis Rood. Many litigants can testify bitterly to the costs, complexity, risks, uncertainty and unforeseen consequences of traditional litigation. Particularly in commercial disputes where the parties often require swift finality and certainty, it is not...
Book Review: The Law of Landlord and Tenant by Sue-Mari Viljoen
Reviewed by Louis Rood. Despite its title, this book encompasses far more than the traditional common law contractual relationship between landlord and tenant. The provision of housing, shelter, and "a roof over your head" for the homeless has become a critical...
Book Review: Indigenous Knowledge & Intellectual Property by C Ncube and E du Plessis
Reviewed by Louis Rood. The 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has brought to the fore the rights of indigenous peoples to the protection of their knowledge and culture. Established legal intellectual property systems, which view...