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Dr Sandhya Maharaj

Dr Sandhya Maharaj

Lecturer

Email MaharajS2@ukzn.co.za
Contact +27 31 260 2979
Campus Howard College
Office Address Suite E, 1st Floor

Academic Qualifications

  • LLB (UKZN)
  • LLM (UNISA)
  • PhD (UKZN)

Biography

Dr Sandhya Maharaj is a lecturer in the School of Law, and has a specific interest in substantive criminal law and criminal justice. She has served as a Candidate Attorney at Legal-Aid South Africa and subsequently worked in private practice as a Conveyancer and as a criminal defence Attorney. In 2017, she graduated with her PhD and thereafter served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UKZN, School of Law, Pietermaritzburg. She currently lectures modules in Specific Offences, Evidence, Civil Procedure and Advanced Criminal Law (LLM).

Research Interests

  • Criminal Capacity: non-pathological (provocation and emotional stress), mental illness and criminal capacity of children.
  • Organised crime and asset forfeiture

Professional Qualifications

  • Attorney and Conveyancer of the High Court of South Africa

Selected Publications

  • Maharaj, S. and Hoctor, SV. “The defence of provocation – where are we now?” Obiter 40, pp 307 – 315 (2019).
  • Maharaj, S. “The role of expert evidence in the defence of provocation and emotional stress in South Africa” Obiter 40, pp 21 – 47 (2019).