Dr Juanita Easthorpe - School of Law

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Campus Pietermaritzburg

Office Address Law Building – Room 8, 1st Floor

Academic Qualifications

LLB (UKZN)
LLM (UKZN)
PhD (UKZN)
Certificate in Labour Law
Certificate for the SANPAD Pre-Doctoral Programme
Certificate for the All African Course on International Humanitarian Law
Certificate in Family and Divorce Mediation

Biography

Dr Easthorpe is a Senior Lecturer in the fields of Family Law, Gender and the Law, Interpretation of Law and Contract. She holds an LLB, LLM and PhD degrees from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She is an admitted Advocate of the High Court of South Africa and an accredited Family and Divorce Mediator. Her main research interests are in the areas of Family Law, Child Law, Human Rights, Religion and the Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution

Research Interests

Family Law
Child Law
Human Rights
Religion and the Law
Alternative Dispute Resolution

Professional Qualifications

Admitted Advocate of the High Court of South Africa

Professional Bodies

Member of the KZN Legal Practice Council
Association of Teachers of International Humanitarian Law (ICRC)
Accredited Family and Divorce Mediator – KZN Society of Mediators

Selected Publications

Easthorpe J (with Carnelley M) “The meaning of the term “means” in the Maintenance Act 99 of 1998 2009 Obiter (2) 370-380.
Bosch S and Easthorpe J “Africa’s toy soldiers, non-state armed groups, and ‘voluntary’ recruitment: anything but child’s play” 2012 vol 21:2 African Security Review 4-19.
Easthorpe J “When being Positive is a Negative: Allpass v Mooikloof Estates” 2013 vol 25:1 SA Mercantile Law Journal 107-117.
Easthorpe J “Pride and Prejudice: De Lange v The Presiding Bishop, Methodist Church of Southern Africa”2015 (4) TSAR 903-918.
Easthorpe, J ‘Bruised but not broken: De Lange v Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa and Another 2016(2) SA 1 (CC)’ (2016) 3 Agenda 115-123.

Useful Websites

South African Human Rights Commission (https://www.sahrc.org.za/)
Centre for Human Rights (https://www.chr.up.zc.za)
International Committee of the Red Cross (https://icrc.org)
International Humanitarian Law Databases (https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en)
Fathers 4 Justice South Africa (https://f4j.co.za)
The Convention on the Rights of the Child (https://www.unicef.org/child-rights-convention/convention-text-childrens-version)
Child Rights Connect (https://childrightsconnect.org/)
Child Rights Network for Southern Africa (https://www.crnsa.net/)
KZN Society of Mediators (http://kznmediation.com)