Criminal and Procedural Law Modules

LLB – First Year

  • Legal Skills

 

LLB – Second Year

  • Criminal Law

 

LLB – Third Year

  • Civil Procedure
  • Criminal Procedure
  • Law of Evidence

 

LLB – Fourth Year

  • Advanced Criminal Law (elective module)
  • Medical Forensic Evidence (elective module)
  • Treatise (elective module)
  • Research assignment (elective module)
  • Legal Practice

 

Higher Certificate in Law Enforcement

  • Conduct of a criminal trial
  • Introduction to criminal investigation
  • Principles of criminal liability
  • Introduction to criminal law and statutory crimes
  • Introduction to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights
  • Introduction to criminology
  • Law enforcement by peace officers
  • Pre-trial procedures
  • Taking of statements and report writing
  • Enforcement of by-laws by traffic officers/municipal police/peace officers and implementation  of a law enforcement strategy (elective module)
  • Enforcement of marine and coastal legislation and implementation of a law enforcement strategy (elective module)

 

Diploma in Law Enforcement – First year

  • Digital literacy
  • Enforcement of marine and coastal legislation
  • English studies for criminal justice A
  • English studies for criminal justice B
  • Introduction to South African law
  • General Principles of law enforcement
  • Enforcement of by-law relating to the sea and the coast
  • Pre-trial procedures
  • Taking of statements

 

Diploma in Law Enforcement – Second year

  • Conduct of a criminal trial
  • Criminal investigation I
  • Constitutional law
  • Introduction to common law and statutory crimes
  • Law for fisheries control officials, inspectors and other enforcement officials
  • Implementation of a law enforcement strategy
  • Criminal law I
  • Advanced enforcement of marine and coastal law (elective module)
  • Advanced enforcement of by-laws relating to the sea and coast (elective module)

 

Diploma in Law Enforcement – Third year

  • Criminal investigation II
  • Criminal procedure
  • Proactive management of law enforcement
  • Law of evidence
  • Enforcement of environmental law
  • Identification of marine species and vessels and gear used in illegal fishing
  • Crime scene protection and management
  • Supervising law enforcement personnel

 

Service Modules for other faculties

  • Applied ethics and law for dietetics (for the Health Sciences Faculty)
  • Medico-legal practice (for the Medical School)

 

Postgraduate modules in Criminal Justice Masters’ programme

  • Advanced criminal law
  • International criminal law
  • Advanced criminal procedure and evidence
  • Sentencing