The course content addresses the following topics:
- Legal rules and other rules (i.e. rules of conduct).
- The characteristics of legal rules.
- How legal rules are created.
- Sources of SA law
- South African court structure.
- The impact of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa,1996.
- Interpretation of statutes.
- The structure of a statute and a court case (i.e. tax case law, Companies Act.)
- The Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
- Classification of the law.
- Framework of the different branches of the law.
- The language of law.
- Legal comparison.
- Dispute resolution.
- Forms of dispute resolution.
- Basic principles of the law of contract.