Prof S Ferreira

Qualifications

BLC (UP); LLB (UP); LLD (Unisa)

Fields of academic interests

Child Law; Persons

Field of Specialisation

Adoption

Journal articles

List of publications:

• Ferreira, S “Protection of the Right to Accrual Sharing” 2002 Journal for Contemporary Roman-Dutch Law 287-292
• Ferreira, S & Jacobs, S “Manipulasie van die Reg? Nahuwelikse registrasie van ‘n Huweliksvoorwaardeskontrak” 2003 Journal for Contemporary Roman-Dutch Law 339-342
• Ferreira, S “Adoption, the Child Care Act and the Children’s Act” 2006 Speculum Juris 129-140
• Ferreira, S “Race and Culture - are we talking about the same thing?” 2006 Journal for Contemporary Roman-Dutch Law 665-670
• Ferreira, S “Intercountry adoptions - De Gree v Webb” 2007 Journal for Contemporary Roman-Dutch Law 146-153
• Ferreira, S “The origin of adoption in South Africa” 2007 Fundamina 1-10
• Ferreira, S “The best interests of the child: From complete indeterminacy to guidance by the Children’s Act” 2010 Journal for Contemporary Roman-Dutch Law 201-213
• Ferreira, S “Determination of paternity. LB v YD 2009 5 SA 463 (T) and YD v LB (A) 2009 5 SA 479 (GNP)” 2011 Journal for Contemporary Roman-Dutch Law 145-155
• Ferreira, S “Adoption in Botswana: does it serve the best interests of the child?” 2012 Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa 412-427
• Ferreira, S “It is My Adoption, But is anyone Listening to Me?” 2013 New Zealand Law Review 373-385
• Ferreira, S “The voice of the child in adoption in South Africa” 2014 Journal for Contemporary Roman-Dutch Law 375-383
• Ferreira, S “Open adoption: creating permanency and continuity” 2014 Australian Journal of Adoption
• Ferreira, S “Step-parent adoption – Centre for Child Law v Minister of Social Development 2014 1 SA 468 (GNP)” 2015 Journal for Contemporary Roman-Dutch Law 140-148
• Skosana, T & Ferreira, S “Step-parent adoption gone wrong: GT v CT [2015] 3 ALL SA 631 (GJ)” 2016 PER
• Ferreira, S “Step-parent adoption: to do, or not to do – that is the question” 2017 Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa 230 – 250
• Ferreira, S “The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction: why mandatory mediation is necessary” 2019 Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa 22-41
• Ferreira, S & Pretorius CJ “Interpretation of a trust deed: Harvey v Crawford 2019 (2) SA 153 (SCA)” 2020 Obiter 447-460

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Orcid Id 0000-0002-6500-5561