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Hyperlinks

All hyperlinks appear in grey blue and are underlined.   For example, if the names of the parties of a case are underlined and appear in grey blue, then there is a hyperlink to the actual case report thanks mainly to SAFLII (Southern African Legal Information Institute) of which GilesFiles is a proud partner.   Click on the names of the parties, to view the case report.

Lectures

Listen to lectures by Graham Giles.   For example, here is the first in a series of lectures given by Graham Giles on the early historical background & development of work law.

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Statutes

The Statutes category contains extracts from the most important work-related statutes.   These extracts help you appreciate the scope of application of the most important work-relates statutes.   Some words or phrases have been highlighted in bold or underlined to draw attention to them.   Notes are in square brackets.

Acrobat

Some documents are in Adobe’s PDF format.   PDF Reader is a free download from Adobe and is approximately 25MB in size.