STATUTORY INTERPRETATION AN INTRODUCTION FOR STUDENTS FIFTH EDITION By Christo Botha

The most effective everyday guide to the Companies Act No. 71 of 2008, including the Draft Companies Amendment Bill.

Christa Rautenbach has more than 30 years of experience as a legal scientist. She holds the following degrees: B luris (cum laude), LLB (cum laude), LLM and LLD. She was a public prosecutor in the employ of the Department of Justice before she became an academic scholar at the Faculty of Law, North-West University (Potchefstroom), where she is a Full Professor. She also holds a number of other positions such as honorary treasurer of the Society of Law Teachers of Southern Africa, secretary of Juris Diversitas and Ambassador Scientist of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In addition, she serves on the Board of the Commission on Legal Pluralism and on the Advisory Board of the African-German Network of Excellence in Science (AGNES).

The Criminal Procedure Workbook Second Edition is designed as an aid in the study of criminal procedure and should be used in conjunction with the prescribed textbook. It is easy to use and facilitates learning through practical, real-life scenarios. In particular, it hones in on the areas where students need assistance when preparing for tests and exams. The practical and straightforward solutions will give students a better understanding of the subject as well as enable them to improve their results.

Principles of Evidence fourth edition • provides invaluable assistance to students and practitioners alike; • continues to assess the impact of the Constitution on the traditional Anglo-South African law of evidence, with attention paid to the admissibility of unconstitutionally obtained evidence in particular; • examines the growing body of case law dealing with hearsay evidence, confessions and admissions; • analyses recent case law developments regarding the use of the previous inconsistent statement of a hostile witness as an admissible form of substantive evidence; • offers a separate discussion of statutory provisions regulating matters as diverse as, for example, sexual history evidence and the admissibility of electronic evidence; • considers the following sections of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act 32 of 2007: s 58 (previous report of victim of sexual offence); s 59 (delay in reporting); and $ 60 (abolition of cautionary rule in respect of victim's evidence).