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Crimen injuria is the common-law crime of unlawfully, intentionally and seriously impairing another person’s dignity. In South Africa it covers serious verbal insults such as ...

The consequences of a protection order in South Africa are civil and criminal: the respondent is barred from specified conduct such as contact and entering ...

Fraud is a crime at common law in South Africa: the unlawful and intentional making of a misrepresentation that causes actual or potential prejudice to ...

Common assault in South Africa is the unlawful and intentional application of force to another person, or the threat of imminent force, without a lawful ...

Commercial crimes in South Africa are financially motivated offences committed in the course of business, typically involving deception, abuse of position, or the hiding or ...

When a child under 18 is arrested in South Africa, the Child Justice Act 38 of 2008 takes over: the child must be assessed by ...

A protection order in South Africa is cancelled or withdrawn by applying to the same court that issued it, not by the police, the prosecutor, ...

You can physically refuse to sign a protection order, but the refusal achieves nothing. Signing is not consent and not an admission of guilt. It ...

No. South African law prohibits double jeopardy: once you have been convicted or acquitted of an offence, you cannot be tried again for that same ...