THE LAW OF EVIDENCE CASES AND STATUTES FIFTH EDITION

This handy text provides the student of entrepreneurial law with a simple and easy to read guide to the legal framework within which the various types of business entities operate in South Africa.

Interpretation of statutes is about understanding enacted law-texts, that is, making sense of the legislative scheme applicable to the situation at hand. Statutory Interpretation: An Introduction for Students aims to teach students to interpret and apply legislation within the total legal environment.

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).

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).