Dear Student,
Welcome to the Law of Persons 112. This is a semester module in basic South African
Law of Persons and is presented in a package of three lectures per week.
1. General Information
The Law of Persons 112 falls in the Department of Private Law. The departmental
Chairperson is Prof. B Martin. His email address is bmartin@uwc.ac.za.
The information about the 4 Graduate Lecturing Assistants (GLA) for the module will be
available in due course.
3. Consultation
Consultation times are posted on the lecturer’s door as well as the GLAs and also
available from the course administrator (Mrs Nelson). Should these times not suit you,
please make an appointment with the lecturer at a mutually convenient time or with the
course administrator.
NB: Students are asked to kindly note that lecturers do not only teach but also have
administrative, research and community service duties (and that some of these duties take
place outside of the lecturer’s office) and to take this into consideration when wanting to
see a lecturer outside of consultation times.
Lectures
The lecture times are as follows:
Group A
Day Time Venue
Monday 12h00-13h00 A2
Tuesday 14h30-15h30 A2
Wednesday 10h50-11h50 A2
Group B
Day Time Venue
Monday 08h30-09h30 A2
Wednesday 12h00-13h00 A2
Thursday 14h00-15h00 A2
Part-time
Day Time Venue
Wednesday 17h00-20h20 A2
4. Prescribed materials
Boezaart Trynie (2010) Law of Persons, (5 ed) Juta
Heaton, J (2008) The South African Law of Persons (3ed), Butterworths.
Case law and legislation as indicated in the study guide
Heaton, J (2008) Casebook on the South African Law of Persons (3ed), Butterworths.
5. Assessment information
a. Tests
There will be two tests for the Law of Persons. Both tests are compulsory. The first test
will be written on Saturday, 12 March 2011 at 09h30. The sick test will be written on
Wednesday 30 March 15h30. The second test will be written on Friday 8 April 2011 at
17h00 and the sick test will be written on Wednesday 20 April 2011 at 15h30. These
dates, as well as the times and venues for the tests, will be posted on the notice board
prior to the test date.
Students are responsible for checking the notice boards. Students who, for a valid reason,
fail to write one of the tests must submit an application, together with a medical
certificate to the Faculty Office within 5 days after the test was written in order to qualify
for a sick test. The departmental chairperson considers all applications and the students
will be informed whether they qualify to write the sick test.
The onus rests on the student to retrieve their marked tests scripts and to keep the scripts
until the end of the semester. A time and place where the scripts may be collected will be
provided. No correction of test marks on the official mark sheet will be effected without
production of the relevant script(s). Students are reminded to collect their test scripts
timeously after the test has been marked and not to wait for a few months before
collecting their scripts.
NB: Unless otherwise announced in class, the tests will cover all the work done up to the
date of the test.
NB: Dates for the tests will be confirmed in class.
Attendance and participation in tutorials will count 10% (ten percent) towards your final
class work mark. If you are not in the tutorial class you must supply Dr Mwambene with
a medical certificate within five working days of such absence.
5.2.2 Compulsory writing skills class attendance and participation Attendance and
participation in writing skills class exercises will count 10 % (ten percent) towards your
final course work mark
5.3 Two assignments must be completed during the course of the semester. The
assignments are contained in annexure 2 of the study guide that has been posted on e-
teaching. Details of the assignments will be provided in class and during tutorials.
NB: In both the assignments, emphasis will also be placed on the writing skills.
Assignments will each count 10% (ten percent) towards your final mark.
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