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PVL1003W: The SA Court Hierarchy and the Doctrine of Precedent

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PVL1003W Foundations of South African Law (also offered as PVL1006W) · University of Cape Town · 2026

An interactive map of South Africa's court hierarchy (Constitutional Court to Magistrates' Courts and specialist courts) paired with practice exercises on stare decisis, ratio vs obiter, and vertical vs horizontal precedent.

PVL1003W Foundations of South African Law at UCT covers the court hierarchy and doctrine of precedent through an interactive tree diagram, featuring South Africa's courts from the Constitutional Court to Magistrates' Courts alongside practice exercises on stare decisis, ratio versus obiter dicta, and vertical versus ho

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Build me a study tool for the SA court system and precedent for PVL1003W — I need to get the hierarchy straight and practise telling ratio from obiter.

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