James Grant
B Proc LLB BA hons (psyc) PhD
Advocate of the High Court of South Africa – Johannesburg Bar
Visiting Associate Professor of Law, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Co-author of the Comme...ver másB Proc LLB BA hons (psyc) PhD
Advocate of the High Court of South Africa – Johannesburg Bar
Visiting Associate Professor of Law, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Co-author of the Commentary on the Criminal Procedure Act.
James has lectured and specialises in criminal law and delict with particular emphasis on the implications of the Constitution on both areas of law. He completed his psychology honours on the moral reasoning of Moses Sithole, South Africa’s most notorious serial killer.
His PhD is entitled The Responsible Mind in South African Criminal Law and concerns the elucidation of the conditions for criminal responsibility – in criminal law known as the requirement of voluntariness and criminal capacity.
James is anticipating – with Juta – that his PhD will be published this year (2018) as a book on criminal responsibility, entitled: The Responsible Mind in South African Criminal Law. Although directed at criminal law in particular, it is equally relevant to problems of free-will and responsibility in all fields of law, including delict, contract, administrative law – and, of course, Constitutional law. It is no accident that James proposes that the ultimate standard and test for responsibility is whether a person could observe the obligations placed on him or her under the Constitution.
James is also a proud co-author of the leading text: Du Toit et al, Commentary on the Criminal Procedure Act.
Practice Areas:
criminal law;
law of delict;
administrative law;
constitutional law; and
contract.
He has been in practice since Dec 2015. He assisted the state in the prosecution of Oscar Pistorius in the appeal, by the state, to the Supreme Court of Appeal – where the culpable homicide conviction of Mr Pistorius was successfully appealed and converted to one of murder (DPP, Gauteng v Pistorius [2015] ZASCA 204).
Teaching
He has lectured criminology, the law of delict, criminal procedure, criminal law and the law of evidence. He has published in the areas of psychological development, the law of delict, the law of evidence, criminal law, and constitutional law, and has addressed international conferences on the compatibility of determinism, neuroscience and criminal responsibility, and the effect of emotion on moral reasoning and criminal responsibility. He no longer lectures full time due to time constraints, but makes himself available for guest lectures.
Contact details
James.Grant@law.co.za
Mobile: 071 361 3710
For legal advice/representation – you will need to have an attorney contact James.
Acknowledgments:
I wish to thank Professor Andrew Paizes for his endless support and guidance.
I am also grateful to Alexander Beyleveld and Isaac hUNJA Koimburi for their invaluable editorial assistance on the initial chapters of the textbook project.
Publications in Peer-reviewed/DE Accredited Journals/Books (sorted by date)
1. James Grant ‘Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Reasoning’ In Developmental Psychology edited by D Hook, J Watts and K Cockroft (2002).
2. Chrisopher J. Roederer & (with James Grant) ‘Law of Delict’ In Annual Survey of South African Law (for 2000) 281-358 (2002).
3. Chrisopher J. Roederer & James Grant ‘Law of Delict’ In The Annual Survey of South African Law (for 2001) 317-90 (2003).
4. James Grant ‘Minister of Safety and Security v Ntamo and Others 2003 (1) SA 547 SCA: Was Justice Done?’ (2004) Obiter
5. Chrisopher J. Roederer & James Grant ‘Law of Delict’ In The Annual Survey of South African Law (for 2002) (2004).
6. James Grant ‘The Permissive Similarity of Legal Causation by Adequate Cause and Nova Causa Interveniens’ (2005) 122 SALJ
7. Chrisopher J. Roederer & James Grant ‘Law of Delict’ In The Annual Survey of South African Law (for 2003) 297-374 (2005).
8. James Grant ‘Determinism, Neuroscience, and Responsibility’ (2006) 2 International Journal of Law in Context 221-31.
9. James Grant ‘Criminal Law’ In The Annual Survey of South African Law (for 2005) (2007).
10. James Grant ‘The Double Life of Unlawfulness: Fact and Law’ (2007) 20 SACJ 1-16.
11. James Grant ‘Criminal Law’ In The Annual Survey of South African Law (for 2006) (2008).
12. David Zeffertt, Andrew Paizes & James Grant ‘Complaints in Sexual Offences’ (2008) 4 SALJ
13. James Grant ‘Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Reasoning’ In Developmental Psychology edited by J Watts and K Cockroft (2009) – revised.
14. James Grant ‘Defences under the Protection of State Information Bill: Unlawfulness and the demands of certainty’ (2012) 28 SAJHR
15. James Grant ‘Common Purpose: Thebus, Marikana and an Unnecessary Evil’ (accepted for publication by SAJHR, forthcoming (2014)) – .
16. Co-author of Juta’s Commentary on the Criminal Procedure Act – ongoing.
17. Online Criminal Law textbook – on this site – ongoing.
18. Forthcoming: The Responsible Mind in South African Criminal Law (2018) Jutaver menos
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