Plagiarism

Question 1

1.1 Plagiarism – plagiarism is an offense, where one uses someone else’s words or ideas and passes them off as their own. When getting information from the internet, book or study guide you need to reference it and give credit to the person for their work, failure to do so will be punishable and you will be punished.

1.2 Plagiarism – this is a form of plagiarism because he failed to reference the website, quote the definition and he used it word for word

1.3 Non – plagiarism – he gave reference to the source and though he copied the paragraph word for word he showed that it’s not his own work or ideas by adding the quotation marks

1.4 Plagiarism – she did not reference and just because she changed a few words it doesn’t mean it is her work and software packages such as “turn it in” can pick this up and she could be penalised

1.5 Plagiarism – it shows that she didn’t read the original source and instead should have referenced the article she actually read.

Question 2

Jooste v Botha 2000(2) BCLR 187(T)

2.1 Facts

Plaintiff (child) took action against father (defendant) claiming that the defendant gave him no love or attention. A child has a right to parental care or family care according to the constitution

Legal Question

Was the defendant present in his illegitimate offspring’s life, and according to the expression and meaning “parental care “was he a parent?

Is the duty to provide love and affection legally enforceable?

Ratio Decidendi

Parent – child relationship is two sided, one side is providing for the child’s physical needs and the other side is being able to provide for his or her psychological and emotional needs. Affection cannot be quantified and attention is relative.

Neither the common law nor the statuses recognise the right for a child to be loved, therefore it cannot be legally enforced.

No claim has been made and no evidence shows that the defendant does or does not pay maintenance.

The father is not a parent...