Criminal Law in the Africa of Today and Tomorrow
- 1 January 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of African Law
- Vol. 7 (1) , 5-17
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021855300001297
Abstract
Future developments in the criminal laws of many African countries present a number of problems. The influence of English criminal law throughout the English-speaking areas has been universal: even in southern Africa where the legal systems are founded upon Roman-Dutch law, criminal law is to a great extent English in character.2 It will be seen, however, that English principles when applied south of the Zambezi may undergo metamorphosis as a result of reinterpretation according to fundamental notions of the Roman-Dutch system.Keywords
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