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Access to justice for children with disabilities : the South African context
Thesis (LLD)--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/53393 Access to justice for children with disabilities : the South African context Boezaart, C.J. (Trynie) eileenicarter@gmail.com Grobbelaar-Du Plessis, IIze Carter, Eileen Izette UCTD Law theses SDG-10 Law theses SDG-16 SDG-10: Reduced inequalities SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Thesis (LLD)--University of Pretoria, 2015. Research indicates that violence against children with disabilities1 occurs at annual rates at least 1.7 times greater than for their non-disabled peers. Children with disabilities are also abandoned more frequently than their non-disabled peers and may face increased levels of discrimination, as a result of their disability. An increased likelihood of abandonment, abuse and discrimination highlights the need for the South African justice system to be ready and able to receive children with disabilities and provide them with access to appropriate redress. Relying on the interrelated nature of the rights contained in the South African Constitution, this research is first and foremost focusing on the rights of the child. Another level of vulnerability is added in respect of the right of children to have access to justice: disability. This is referred to within the scope of this research as the two-tier vulnerability principle. This principle necessitates that an approach to address the needs of children with disabilities must be sought with one leg in the discourse of the rights of children and another within the area of the rights of people with disabilities. A combination of the two approaches is applied in assessing South Africa s responses to the rights of children with disabilities to have access to justice. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, as well as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities further assist in establishing a framework against which access to justice for children with disabilities in domestic legislation and other measures are tested. This research concludes by comparing South Africa s responsiveness to two other jurisdictions, namely Ghana and Canada, as well as best practices from certain states from the United States of America, and makes recommendations on how to apply the best practices principle. Private Law LLD Unrestricted 2016-06-27T12:17:20Z 2016-06-27T12:17:20Z 2016-04-14 2015 Thesis Carter, EI 2015, Access to justice for children with disabilities : the South African context, LLD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/53393> A2016 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/53393 en © 2016 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Law theses SDG-10 Law theses SDG-16 SDG-10: Reduced inequalities SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Access to justice for children with disabilities : the South African context |
| title | Access to justice for children with disabilities : the South African context |
| title_full | Access to justice for children with disabilities : the South African context |
| title_fullStr | Access to justice for children with disabilities : the South African context |
| title_full_unstemmed | Access to justice for children with disabilities : the South African context |
| title_short | Access to justice for children with disabilities : the South African context |
| title_sort | access to justice for children with disabilities the south african context |
| topic | UCTD Law theses SDG-10 Law theses SDG-16 SDG-10: Reduced inequalities SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/53393 |