An analysis of the legal challenges experienced by offenders with hearing and/or speech impairment in the South Africa criminal justice system
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Date
2019
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University of the Western Cape
Abstract
This study identifies and analyses legal impediments faced by certain offenders who have
impaired speech and hearing in the criminal justice system. It focuses on some of the
challenges which arise during the pre-trial stage, trial and during incarceration. In particular
the thesis considers the barriers which offenders face in making or seeking to make voluntary
statements, challenges due to an inability to understand court proceedings and the plight of
such offenders during incarceration.
Some of the major barriers which ought to be addressed in terms of the law are identified and
highlighted while endeavouring to make some recommendations which may improve the
position of offenders with hearing and /or speech impairment in the South African criminal
justice system.
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Magister Legum - LLM
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Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Court proceedings, Criminal Justice System, Human Rights, Voluntary statement, Incarceration