Author: Legal Assistance Centre (Namibia)
Publisher: Centre
ISBN:
Category : Customary law
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This paper explores possible legal reforms for the recognotion of customary marriages in Namibia. It emphasis recognition rather than merely registration might or might not be a prerequisite for recognition.
Proposals for Law Reform on the Recognition of Customary Marriages
Author: Legal Assistance Centre (Namibia)
Publisher: Centre
ISBN:
Category : Customary law
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This paper explores possible legal reforms for the recognotion of customary marriages in Namibia. It emphasis recognition rather than merely registration might or might not be a prerequisite for recognition.
Publisher: Centre
ISBN:
Category : Customary law
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This paper explores possible legal reforms for the recognotion of customary marriages in Namibia. It emphasis recognition rather than merely registration might or might not be a prerequisite for recognition.
The Recognition of Aboriginal Customary Laws
Author: Australia. Law Reform Commission
Publisher: Australian Government Publishing Service
ISBN:
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Detailed examination of the scope for recognition of customary laws through existing common law rules; human rights and problems of relativity of standards; contact experience; constitutional aspects; marriage and family structures; recognition of traditional marriage; protection and distribution of property; child custody, fostering and adoption; the criminal justice system; customary law offences; police investigation and interrogation; issues of evidence and procedure including unsworn statements, juries and interpreters; proof of customary law including scope of expert evidence; taking of evidence including group evidence, secrecy and privileged communications; customary methods of dispute settlement; special Aboriginal courts and justice schemes; relations with police; traditional hunting, fishing and gathering practices; relevant case law and legislation considered throughout.
Publisher: Australian Government Publishing Service
ISBN:
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Detailed examination of the scope for recognition of customary laws through existing common law rules; human rights and problems of relativity of standards; contact experience; constitutional aspects; marriage and family structures; recognition of traditional marriage; protection and distribution of property; child custody, fostering and adoption; the criminal justice system; customary law offences; police investigation and interrogation; issues of evidence and procedure including unsworn statements, juries and interpreters; proof of customary law including scope of expert evidence; taking of evidence including group evidence, secrecy and privileged communications; customary methods of dispute settlement; special Aboriginal courts and justice schemes; relations with police; traditional hunting, fishing and gathering practices; relevant case law and legislation considered throughout.
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sex discrimination against women
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sex discrimination against women
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Land Tenure, Housing Rights and Gender in Mozambique
Author:
Publisher: UN-HABITAT
ISBN: 9211317681
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher: UN-HABITAT
ISBN: 9211317681
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Customary Laws on Inheritance in Namibia
Author: Mercedes Ovis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789991663081
Category : Customary law
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789991663081
Category : Customary law
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
More Than a Name
Author: Commission internationale pour les droits des gais et des lesbiennes
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564322869
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
4. Health and HIV/AIDS
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN: 9781564322869
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
4. Health and HIV/AIDS
UBuntu and the Law
Author: Nyoko Muvangua
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823233820
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
This book brings together the uBuntu jurisprudence of South Africa, as well as the most cutting-edge critical essays about South African jurisprudence on uBuntu. Can indigenous values be rendered compatible with a modern legal system? This book raises some of the most pressing questions in cultural, political, and legal theory.
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823233820
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
This book brings together the uBuntu jurisprudence of South Africa, as well as the most cutting-edge critical essays about South African jurisprudence on uBuntu. Can indigenous values be rendered compatible with a modern legal system? This book raises some of the most pressing questions in cultural, political, and legal theory.
The Gender Politics of the Namibian Liberation Struggle
Author: Martha Akawa
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 3905758504
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Womens contributions against apartheid under the auspices of the Namibian liberation movement SWAPO and their personal experiences in exile take center stage in this study. Male and female leadership structures in exile are analysed whilst the sexual politics in the refugee camps and the public imagery of female representation in SWAPOs nationalism receive special attention. The partys public pronouncements of women empowerment and gender equality are compared to the actual implementations of gender politics during and after the liberation struggle.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 3905758504
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Womens contributions against apartheid under the auspices of the Namibian liberation movement SWAPO and their personal experiences in exile take center stage in this study. Male and female leadership structures in exile are analysed whilst the sexual politics in the refugee camps and the public imagery of female representation in SWAPOs nationalism receive special attention. The partys public pronouncements of women empowerment and gender equality are compared to the actual implementations of gender politics during and after the liberation struggle.
Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Author: American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Publisher: American Bar Association
ISBN: 9781590318737
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
Publisher: American Bar Association
ISBN: 9781590318737
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
Reimagining Legal Pluralism in Africa
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004696741
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
This collection challenges the prevailing conflict of laws approach to the interaction of state and indigenous legal systems. It introduces adaptive legal pluralism as an alternative framework that emphasises dialogue and engagement between these legal systems. By exploring a dialogic approach to legal pluralism, the authors shed light on how it can effectively address the challenges stemming from the colonial imposition of industrial legal systems on Africa’s agrarian political economies.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004696741
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
This collection challenges the prevailing conflict of laws approach to the interaction of state and indigenous legal systems. It introduces adaptive legal pluralism as an alternative framework that emphasises dialogue and engagement between these legal systems. By exploring a dialogic approach to legal pluralism, the authors shed light on how it can effectively address the challenges stemming from the colonial imposition of industrial legal systems on Africa’s agrarian political economies.