Beginner\'s Guide for Law Students notes

Explore the difference between custom and customary law and refer to the test as formulated in Van Breda v Jacobs, define customary law, distinguish between living and official customary law, examine when customary/indigenous law will apply to a dispute and investigate the impact of the Constitution and s.39(2) on customary law

Understand the idea of a social contract and the difference between a Western and African approach to it, investigate why we have ‘laws’ and what the law is, understand the South African legitimacy crisis, understand the relationship between law and morality, how law as a normative system is distinguishable from other normative systems in context of the change in the South African legal order, investigate the link and meaning between law and justice and understand the fallacy of legal certai...

Understand and apply; the basic classification of law, the various subdivisions within each branch of law, how factual problems are allocated into particular branches of law, that a strict classification is not an accurate representation of law in context

Introduction to Law 171 Summaries for 2020.