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Family Law - PVL2601

Diploma,Under Graduate Degree Semester module NQF level: 6 Credits: 12
Module presented in English Module presented online
Pre-requisite: ILW1501 & PVL1501
Purpose: The purpose of this module is to equip students with knowledge, skills, attitudes and competencies to analyse and critically evaluate legal material (the Constitution, legislation, case law and academic opinion) relating to family law in order to formulate legal arguments and to apply their knowledge to practical problems that simulate real-life situations. The module incorporates pluralism of family laws and aspects of Africanisation and indigenisation of family law. The module also incorporates principles relating to transformative constitutionalism, Ubuntu, social responsibility, graduateness, and humanisation in the context of family law.