Com a vigência da Constituição Federal de 1988 a judicialização dos conflitos tomou força em razão do amplo rol de direitos tutelados. O Poder Legislativo e o Poder Executivo não cumpriram de maneira satisfatória a defesa e a preservação do meio ambiente, determinadas pela Carta Magna. Em razão disso, o povo passou a buscar a garantia do seu direito à vida digna através da interposição de ações judiciais. A atividade ativa do Poder Judiciário na seara ambiental passou a receber críticas por, supostamente, ferir a tripartição dos poderes, pois os juízes não são eleitos pelo voto popular. Busca-se demonstrar, através do método hermenêutico, que a judicialização dos conflitos ambientais, nada mais é do que a expansão do debate democrático através do processo judicial. No Direito Ambiental, o fenômeno da judicialização demonstra a sua relevância, especialmente pela postura ativa do Judiciário na preservação do meio ambiente e, consequentemente, da vida no planeta. / Since the Brazilian Federal Constitution of 1988, the judicialization of conflicts has intensified, due to the wide range of rights protected. The Legislative and Executive branches have not met in a satisfactory manner, the defense and preservation of the environment, determined by the Constitution. As a result, the people began to seek assurance of their right to a dignified life through the judiciary. The active work of the Judiciary, in environmental matters, began to receive criticism for allegedly violating the tripartite division of powers, since judges are not elected by popular vote. It aims to demonstrate, through the hermeneutic method, that the judicialization of environmental conflicts is nothing more than the expansion of democratic debate through legal actions. In Environmental Law, the judicialization demonstrates its relevance, especially because of the judiciary's active role in the preservation of the environment and, consequently, of the life on planet.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T18:18:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 flavio_porpino_cabral_melo.pdf: 42399043 bytes, checksum: 4b8381b09f3fb05fe339ad20580979db (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-02-21 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research has the object of study of the experience of pre - mediation sessions imposed by the judiciary of Pernambuco in order to investigate , describe and analyze the partition structure of the interlocutors, by recording the event and subsequent transcription and formatting transcription for analysis of the material by the Critical Discourse Analysis approach , in particular , analysis of speech in institutional interaction. As a counterpoint , there is what effectively in practice the pre - mediation match prescriptive framework that the Judiciary of Pernambuco was imposed to institutionalize the Auxiliary System Conflict Resolution , formalized through Central Conciliation , Mediation and Arbitration ( Resolution No. 222/2007 of 04/07/2007 , articles 73 and 74 of the Code of Judicial Organization of the State of Pernambuco - State Complementary Law No. 100 of 21/11/2007 ) . This factual context , crystallize very important social issues , particularly on the Right , since studying the Judiciary of Pernambuco public policy , recently implemented and not subjected to this kind of approach . But also contributes to the nucleation and consolidation of research activities in view of the Scythian Discourse Analysis ( CDA) in Law . / A presente pesquisa tem por objeto de estudo a experiência das sessões de pré-mediação instituídas pelo Poder Judiciário de Pernambuco com o objetivo de investigar, descrever e analisar a estrutura de partição dos interlocutores, mediante a gravação do evento e posterior transcrição e formatação da transcrição para análise do material por meio da abordagem da Análise Crítica do Discurso, em especial, da análise em fala em interação institucional. Como contraponto, verifica-se o que efetivamente na prática a pré-mediação corresponde ao marco prescritivo que o Poder Judiciário de Pernambuco se impôs ao institucionalizar o Sistema Auxiliar de Resolução de Conflitos, formalizado através de Centrais de Conciliação, Mediação e Arbitragem (Resolução nº 222/2007, de 04/07/2007; artigos 73 e 74 do Código de Organização Judiciária do Estado de Pernambuco - Lei Complementar Estadual nº 100, de 21/11/2007). Deste quadro fático, cristalizam-se questões sociais importantíssimas, em especial para o Direito, vez que se estuda política pública do Poder Judiciário de Pernambuco, recém implementada e ainda não submetida a esse tipo de abordagem. Como também contribui para a nucleação e consolidação de atividades de pesquisa na perspectiva da Análise Cítica do Discurso (ACD) na área do Direito.

Le droit constitutionnel vit aujourd’hui un rayonnement sans précédents. Cette splendeur est la conséquence d'un long processus historique de maturation juridique qui s’est accéléré durant les derniers temps. La généralisation du mouvement de constitutionnalisation est l’un des principaux résultats de ce processus juridique qui amène le remplacement de cette discipline juridique. Ainsi, la constitutionnalisation est-elle considérée comme un phénomène juridique complexe qui se produit par l'irradiation du pouvoir normatif de la constitution sur tout l'ordre juridique. Actuellement, avec l'adoption généralisée du constitutionnalisme, l’influence de la force normative constitutionnelle est vivement présente dans la plupart des systèmes juridiques. Du même, le processus constitutionnalisant est par conséquence responsable des importantes transformations contemporaines du droit public que particulièrement entraînent une dense spécialisation des disciplines inspirées dans une efficace protection de l’intérêt public. C’est à propos de cette question qu’on perçoit qu'il existe une profonde influence de la valeur juridique constitutionnelle sur le domaine du droit public où est enrichie la notion de chose publique. Pour cela, il existe un rapport naturel et essentiel dans l’évolution commune entre la notion d’État et pouvoir politique. La constitutionnalisation devient actuellement un des phénomènes plus répandus, sa récurrence dans l'ordre juridique révèle une tendance à la consolidation du pouvoir normatif de la Constitution et la ferme détermination à garantir l’efficacité des droits reconnus au texte constitutionnel. Deux arguments permettent d’expliquer l’origine de ce phénomène, le premier, est lié au développement propre des concepts de la théorie constitutionnelle et correspond à ce que l’on pourrait appeler des causes générales. Le second renvoie aux éléments particulières qui caractérisant chaque branche de droit touchée par la constitutionnalisation à ce que l’on pourrait appeler des – causes spécifiques. On observe par exemple une certaine complexité dans le processus de constitutionnalisation du droit administratif qu’on pourrait expliquer en raison de la proximité théorique avec le droit constitutionnel. En termes pratiques dans le cas colombien la constitutionnalisation du droit administratif a des circonstances propres qui tournent autour de la hiérarchie normative. Ainsi, en premier lieu, l'analyse de la constitutionnalisation du droit administratif devra intégrer l'influence des causes générales du processus. Ce qui nous permettra en second lieu à partir des causes communes du processus de constitutionnalisation, de faire ressortir plus aisément les causes spécifiques qui sous-tendent la constitutionnalisation du droit administratif en Colombie. / In the contemporary world, many states, at different latitudes and with varying legal systems, are experiencing a constitutionalization process of the law as a real legal phenomenon, which presupposes a new look at the constitutional law, based on the recognition of the normative force of the constitution’s law as well as the influence which is spreading in the legal order and which can lead to the unification of law.This new vision of constitutionalism represents a real paradigm shift, especially for legal practitioners, for whom the idea of the hierarchy of law sources, or the main legal point of constitutionalization, is to consider the Constitution as the source of the essential sufficient right placed at the centre of the entire legal order to define the conditions of production and application of the law. Yet today, public law and more specifically the discipline of constitutional law is interested in the holistic understanding of the notion of constitution, and its various facets try to identify the influence of constitutional power to know the real impact produced by the process of constitutionalization on the branches of law.As a result, studying the scope of the constitutional phenomenon has become a subject of much debate in the contemporary world. In general, the focus of the debate remains on public law, the intersection of the normative power of the ‘Constitution’ and the content of the branches of law. In the specific case of administrative law, constitutionalization has a particular endogenous connotation: this phenomenon is systemic and produces an effect of internal collision between the different frontiers of the branches of public law. Indeed, it starts by identifying a common base on the bases of constitutional law and administrative law, which will subsequently have to produce a profound adjustment in the relationship between them.In Colombia, the adoption of the 1991 constitution produced a legal and institutional upheaval. Most transformations have been determined by an ambitious list of rights granted to citizens and the implementation of mechanisms to ensure the supremacy of constitutional norms, and to guarantee the protection of fundamental rights, imperative to the social state of law. There is no doubt that the main institutional reform brought by the 1991 Constitution was the creation of the Constitutional Court and, consequently, of its Constitutional High Court. In this way, in Colombia, public law, and especially constitutional law, have undergone significant changes that have now influenced the entire legal system. Yet, constitutionalization is a process that is present in the Colombian legal order, and research aims to study this phenomenon, which is limited to the area of administrative law, particularly for the case of Colombia.The administrative field in Colombia initially responded in the same way to the French model at the institutional, substantial and procedural level; it is the starting point for finding the interest of the analysis of the constitutionalization of the administrative law of the Colombian perspective.Nowadays, the presence of constitutionalization shows the importance of knowing the relationship between the current dynamics between Constitutional Law and Administrative Law in the role of guarantors of the protection of citizens’ rights in the rule of law. This research work seeks to analyse how the jurisdictional power, and more specifically the constitutional and administrative judges, coadministrate through their decisions, in instrumentalism the constitutionalization.

The African Charter on Human and Peoples‟ Rights (the Africa Charter), which is one of the constituents of the African human rights system, was adopted by the Assembly of Head of States and Governments of the OAU in 1981 and entered into force five years later in 1986. The African Charter covers a wider range of rights when compared to the other regional human rights instruments, such as the European and the Inter-American Human Rights Systems. As many writers indicated, the Africa Charter is designed to reflect the history, values, traditions, and development of Africa by joining collective rights and individual duties. The African Commission on Humans and Peoples‟ Rights (the Commission) is responsible for the enforcement of the African Charter. Currently, the African Charter has been ratified by 53 countries. South Africa has signed, ratified and deposited the Charter on 09 July 1996. / Prepared under the supervision of Dr. Letitia van der Poll, Faculty of Law of the University of the Western Cape, South Africa / Thesis (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa))--University of Pretoria, 2011. / http://www.chr.up.ac.za/ / nf2012 / Centre for Human Rights / LLM

[pt] A presente dissertação objetivou analisar a expansão do modelo de teletrabalho vigente no Tribunal Regional Federal da 2ª Região (TRF2) como uma das estratégias do projeto de modernização do Poder Judiciário. O teletrabalho é uma modalidade de trabalho exercida remotamente através da utilização de aparato tecnológico - como conexão à rede de internet, computadores, notebooks e/ou aparelhos celulares-, e, que, em grande maioria, acontece na residência do trabalhador de forma integral ou parcial. Esta modalidade fora introduzida no campo pesquisado formalmente em 2016, integrando o conjunto de medidas propostas pelo projeto de modernização iniciado no Poder Judiciário brasileiro 2009. O processo conhecido como modernização do Poder Judiciário pretende implementar mais tecnologias informacionais enquanto também promove uma mudança no método de gestão dos tribunais em busca de promover a celeridade processual e a eficiência. Um marco desse projeto foi a implementação do Processo Jurídico eletrônico, o PJe, que possibilitou a passagem dos processos físicos para o meio digital enquanto também facilitou que a produção do magistrado e de seus subordinados estive sob comando do controle gerencial. Assim, a pesquisa aqui apresentada, de caráter qualitativo, se debruça sobre bibliografias, documentos e registros oficiais como a Resolução N 227 do Conselho Nacional de Justiça e a Resolução TRF2-RSP-2019/00046 do Tribunal Regional Federal da 2ª região, a fim de identificar o teletrabalho como uma estratégia do projeto de modernização do Poder Judiciário, através da análise do caso da implementação da modalidade no Tribunal Regional Federal da 2ª Região, buscando identificar as complexidades e contradições presentes nesse modo de trabalho que permitem alcançar os objetivos da modernização. Como resultados parciais destacamos a concentração do poder nos gestores das unidades que utilizam o teletrabalho como uma estratégia de gestão que pretende criar um perfil de servidor ágil e disponível visando o aumento da produtividade, redução de custos com a força de trabalho no setor público, atendendo sobretudo, aos interesses do projeto neoliberal. / [en] The present dissertation aimed to analyze the expansion of the telework model in force at the Federal Regional Court of the 2nd Region (TRF2) as one of the strategies of the project to modernize the Judiciary. Telework is a modality of work carried out remotely through the use of technological apparatus - such as connection to the internet network, computers, notebooks and/or cell phones-, and which, for the most part, takes place at the worker s residence, either fully or partial. This modality was formally introduced in the researched field in 2016, integrating the set of measures proposed by the modernization project initiated in the Brazilian Judiciary Power in 2009. The process known as modernization of the Judiciary Power intends to implement more informational technologies while also promoting a change in the management method of the courts in order to promote procedural speed and efficiency. A milestone of this project was the implementation of the electronic Legal Process, the PJe, which enabled the transfer of physical processes to the digital environment while also facilitating that the production of the magistrate and his subordinates was under the command of managerial control. Thus, the research presented here, of a qualitative nature, focuses on bibliographies, documents and official records such as Resolution N 227 of the National Council of Justice and Resolution TRF2-RSP-2019/00046 of the Federal Regional Court of the 2nd region, in order to identify telecommuting as one of the strategies of the project to modernize the Judiciary Power, through the analysis of the case of the implementation of the modality in the Federal Regional Court of the 2nd Region, seeking to identify the complexities and contradictions present in this mode of work that allow achieving the objectives of the modernization. As partial results, we highlight the concentration of power in the managers of the units that use telework as a management strategy that intends to create an agile and available server profile aimed at increasing productivity, reducing costs with the workforce in the public sector, serving above all, to the interests of the neoliberal project.

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Text in Afrikaans / Summaries in Afrikaans and English / Die beginsel van die onafhanklikheid van die regbank word verskans in die Grondwet van die Republiek van Suid-Afrika van 1996. 'n Onafhanklike regbank is noodsaaklik ten einde te voldoen aan die primere funksie van die regbank, naamlik die bewerkstelliging van geregtigheid. Openbare vertroue in die onafhanklikheid van die regbank verhoog die legitimiteit van hierdie instelling, wat noodsaaklik is vir nakoming en eerbiediging van die howe se beslissings deur die gemeenskap. In die verlede het kritici beweer dat die regbank 'n legitimiteitskrisis beleef op grond daarvan dat polilieke oorwegings 'n rol gespeel het by die aanstelling van regsprekende amptenare, dat die regbank nie verteenwoordigend genoeg is van die bevolking wat betref ras en geslag nie en dat die howe in die verlede in sommige gevalle te owerheidsgesind was en soms diskriminerende wetgewing sonder veel skroom of teenspraak aanvaar en toegepas het. Kritici het daarop gewys dat die opbloei in die volkshowe as alternatief tot die formele howe, as voorbeeld dien van die algehele miskenning van en wantroue in die reg bank. 'n Kritiese evaluering van hierdie aangeleenthede is gedoen aan die hand van 'n regsvergelykende ondersoek. Daar is tot die gevolgtrekking gekom dat die Regterlike Dienskommissie en die Landdrostekommissie 'n belangrike hervorming teweeg gebring het op die gebied van aanstelling van regterlike amptenare. Verder is bevind dat die juriestelsel nie 'n realistiese oplossing bied om die regbank meer verteenwoordigend van die gemeenskap te maak nie, maar dat die assessorestelsel blyk 'n meer praktiese en geskikte alternatief te wees. Dit het verder geblyk dat daar van regterlike beamptes verwag word om, in die lig van die Grondwet van 1996 en 'n stelsel van grondwetlike oppermagtigheid, 'n aktivistiese waarde-ge6rienteerde of waarde-aktiverende benadering by wets- en grondwetuitleg te volg. Daar is verder bevind dat die informele howe behoue moet bly, maar aangepas behoort te word by veranderende omstandighede, in die lig van die Grondwet en die handves van fundamentele regte. Ten slotte is voorstelle gemaak as moontlike oplossing vir bepaalde probleme wat geidentifiseer is. / The principle of the independence of the judiciary is entrenched in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa of 1996. An independent judiciary is essential in order to fulfill the primary function of a judiciary, namely the realisation of justice. Public confidence in the independence of the judiciary increases the legitimacy of this institution, which is essential for respect for and compliance with the decisions of the court by the community. In the past critics maintained that the judiciary is experiencing a legitimacy crisis, due to the fact that political considerations have played a role in the appointment of judicial officials, that the judiciary is not representative of the community in respect of race and sex and that the courts have been too executive-minded in the past and have at times accepted and applied discriminatory legislation without much hesitation or contradiction. Critics alleged that the proliferation of people's courts as an alternative to the formal courts, was an indication of the general denial of and loss of confidence in the judiciary. A critical evaluation of these aspects was undertaken by way of a comparative study. It lead to the conclusion that the Judicial Service Commission and the Magistrates Commission brought about an important reform regarding the appointment of judicial officials. It was found that the jury system does not constitute a realistic solution to make the judiciary more representative of the community, but that the assessor system seems to be a more practical alternative. It became apparant that in view of the Constitution of 1996 and our system of constitutional supremacy, it is expected of judicial officals to follow an activistic value-orientated or value-activated approach during legislative and constitutional interpretation. It is furthermore concluded that the informal courts should be retained, but that they should be adapted to the changing circumstances in view of the Constitution and the bill of rights. Finally, suggestions are made in order to address certain problems which have been identified. / Criminal and Procedural Law / LL.D.

Text in Afrikaans / Summaries in Afrikaans and English / Die beginsel van die onafhanklikheid van die regbank word verskans in die Grondwet van die Republiek van Suid-Afrika van 1996. 'n Onafhanklike regbank is noodsaaklik ten einde te voldoen aan die primere funksie van die regbank, naamlik die bewerkstelliging van geregtigheid. Openbare vertroue in die onafhanklikheid van die regbank verhoog die legitimiteit van hierdie instelling, wat noodsaaklik is vir nakoming en eerbiediging van die howe se beslissings deur die gemeenskap. In die verlede het kritici beweer dat die regbank 'n legitimiteitskrisis beleef op grond daarvan dat polilieke oorwegings 'n rol gespeel het by die aanstelling van regsprekende amptenare, dat die regbank nie verteenwoordigend genoeg is van die bevolking wat betref ras en geslag nie en dat die howe in die verlede in sommige gevalle te owerheidsgesind was en soms diskriminerende wetgewing sonder veel skroom of teenspraak aanvaar en toegepas het. Kritici het daarop gewys dat die opbloei in die volkshowe as alternatief tot die formele howe, as voorbeeld dien van die algehele miskenning van en wantroue in die reg bank. 'n Kritiese evaluering van hierdie aangeleenthede is gedoen aan die hand van 'n regsvergelykende ondersoek. Daar is tot die gevolgtrekking gekom dat die Regterlike Dienskommissie en die Landdrostekommissie 'n belangrike hervorming teweeg gebring het op die gebied van aanstelling van regterlike amptenare. Verder is bevind dat die juriestelsel nie 'n realistiese oplossing bied om die regbank meer verteenwoordigend van die gemeenskap te maak nie, maar dat die assessorestelsel blyk 'n meer praktiese en geskikte alternatief te wees. Dit het verder geblyk dat daar van regterlike beamptes verwag word om, in die lig van die Grondwet van 1996 en 'n stelsel van grondwetlike oppermagtigheid, 'n aktivistiese waarde-ge6rienteerde of waarde-aktiverende benadering by wets- en grondwetuitleg te volg. Daar is verder bevind dat die informele howe behoue moet bly, maar aangepas behoort te word by veranderende omstandighede, in die lig van die Grondwet en die handves van fundamentele regte. Ten slotte is voorstelle gemaak as moontlike oplossing vir bepaalde probleme wat geidentifiseer is. / The principle of the independence of the judiciary is entrenched in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa of 1996. An independent judiciary is essential in order to fulfill the primary function of a judiciary, namely the realisation of justice. Public confidence in the independence of the judiciary increases the legitimacy of this institution, which is essential for respect for and compliance with the decisions of the court by the community. In the past critics maintained that the judiciary is experiencing a legitimacy crisis, due to the fact that political considerations have played a role in the appointment of judicial officials, that the judiciary is not representative of the community in respect of race and sex and that the courts have been too executive-minded in the past and have at times accepted and applied discriminatory legislation without much hesitation or contradiction. Critics alleged that the proliferation of people's courts as an alternative to the formal courts, was an indication of the general denial of and loss of confidence in the judiciary. A critical evaluation of these aspects was undertaken by way of a comparative study. It lead to the conclusion that the Judicial Service Commission and the Magistrates Commission brought about an important reform regarding the appointment of judicial officials. It was found that the jury system does not constitute a realistic solution to make the judiciary more representative of the community, but that the assessor system seems to be a more practical alternative. It became apparant that in view of the Constitution of 1996 and our system of constitutional supremacy, it is expected of judicial officals to follow an activistic value-orientated or value-activated approach during legislative and constitutional interpretation. It is furthermore concluded that the informal courts should be retained, but that they should be adapted to the changing circumstances in view of the Constitution and the bill of rights. Finally, suggestions are made in order to address certain problems which have been identified. / Criminal and Procedural Law / LL.D.

Nowadays, one of the recurring problems is the increasingly proactive role of the judiciary organ, mainly after the 1988 Constitution, which is introducing a true legalization of daily life, as a sort of graduation compared to judicialism in terms of judicial action. Such phenomenon is now nominated as judicial activism. It is in this context that revisits the thought of Montesquieu, especially the system of checks and balances that coined by philosopher and starting this dissertation from the premise that the people are the true holder of the last word. However, recognizing that the most expensive matters to society issues end up in the hands of the judiciary organ, who is forbidden to establish the non liquet , this body ends up being taken to an activism that needs to be revised and the society must show their own strength, otherwise Brazil , which has suffered from stateship , it will have risked its freedom, democracy, fundamental values that Montesquieu identifies in the republican form of government, establishing, finally, the true empire of laws. / Um dos problemas mais recorrentes da atualidade é a atuação cada vez mais proativa do órgão Judiciário, que praticamente, máxime a partir da Constituição de 1988, vem instaurando uma verdadeira judicialização da vida cotidiana, daí tal fenômeno passar a ser nominado de ativismo judicial, como uma espécie de graduação em relação ao judicialismo em termos de atuação judicial. É nesse cenário que se revisita o pensamento de Montesquieu, especialmente o sistema de freios e contrapesos cunhado pelo referido filósofo e partindo esta dissertação da premissa segundo a qual o povo é o verdadeiro detentor da última palavra. Ora, reconhecendo que as questões mais caras à sociedade acabam nas mãos do órgão Judiciário, a quem é vedado estabelecer o non liquet, este acaba sendo levado a um ativismo que precisa ser revisto e o povo deve mostrar a própria força, sob pena de o Brasil, que já sofreu com estadania, ter comprometida a liberdade, a democracia, valores fundamentais que Montesquieu identifica na forma de governo republicana, instaurando-se, enfim, o verdadeiro império das leis.

Thesis (LLD)--Stellenbosch University, 2014. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis examines the contractual remedy of specific performance in South African law. It looks closely and critically at the discretionary power of the courts to refuse to order specific performance. The focus is on the considerations relevant to the exercise of the judicial discretion. First, it emphasises the tension between the right and the discretion. It is argued that it is problematical for our courts to refuse to order specific performance in the exercise of their discretion. The underlying difficulty is that the discretion of the court to refuse specific performance is fundamentally in conflict with the supposed right of the plaintiff to claim specific performance. The thesis investigates the tenability of this open-ended discretionary approach to the availability of specific performance as a remedy for breach of contract. To this end, the thesis examines less complex, more streamlined approaches embodied in different international instruments. Comparison between different legal systems is also used in order to highlight particular problems in the South African approach, and to see whether a better solution may be borrowed from elsewhere. An investigation of the availability of this remedy in other legal systems and international instruments reveals that the South African approach is incoherent and unduly complex. In order to illustrate this point, the thesis examines four of the grounds on which our courts have refused to order specific performance. In the first two instances, namely, when damages provide adequate relief, and when it will be difficult for the court to oversee the execution of the order, we see that the courts gradually attach less or even no weight to these factors when deciding whether or not to order specific performance. In the third instance, namely, personal service contracts, the courts have at times been willing to grant specific performance, but have also refused it in respect of highly personal obligations, which is understandable insofar as the law wishes to avoid forced labour and sub-standard performances. The analysis of the fourth example, namely, undue hardship, demonstrates that the courts continue to take account of the interests of defendants and third parties when deciding whether or not to order specific performance. This study found that there are certain circumstances in which the courts invariably refuse to order specific performance and where the discretionary power that courts have to refuse specific performance is actually illusory. It is argued that our law relating to specific performance could be discredited if this reality is not reflected in legal doctrine. Given this prospect, possible solutions to the problem are evaluated, and an argument is made in favour of a simpler concrete approach that recognises more clearly-defined rules with regard to when specific performance should be refused in order to provide coherency and certainty in the law. This study concludes that a limited right to be awarded specific performance may be preferable to a right which is subject to an open-ended discretion to refuse it, and that an exception-based approach could provide a basis for the simplification of our law governing specific performance of contracts. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis ondersoek die benadering tot die kontraktuele remedie van spesifieke nakoming in die Suid-Afrikaanse reg. Die diskresionêre bevoegdheid van howe om spesifieke nakoming te weier word van nader en krities aanskou. Die fokus is op die oorwegings wat ‘n rol speel by die uitoefening van die diskresie. Eerstens beklemtoon die tesis die spanning tussen die reg en die regterlike diskresie. Daar word aangevoer dat dit problematies is dat ons howe ‘n eis om spesifieke nakoming kan weier in die uitoefening van hul diskresie. Die onderliggende probleem is dat die hof se diskresie om spesifieke nakoming te weier, fundamenteel in stryd is met die sogenaamde reg van die eiser om spesifieke nakoming te eis. Die tesis ondersoek die houbaarheid van hierdie onbelemmerde diskresionêre benadering tot die beskikbaarheid van spesifieke nakoming as ‘n remedie vir kontrakbreuk. Vervolgens ondersoek die tesis die vereenvoudigde benaderings ten opsigte van spesifieke nakoming beliggaam in verskillende internasionale instrumente. Vergelyking tussen verskillende regstelsels word ook gebruik om spesifieke probleme in die Suid- Afrikaanse benadering uit te lig, en om vas te stel of daar ‘n beter oplossing van elders geleen kan word. ‘n Ondersoek van die aanwesigheid van hierdie remedie in ander regstelsels en internasionale instrumente onthul dat die Suid-Afrikaanse benadering onsamehangend en onnodig ingewikkeld is. Om hierdie punt te illustreer, ondersoek die tesis vier gronde waarop die remedie tipies geweier word. In die eerste twee gevalle, naamlik, wanneer skadevergoeding genoegsame regshulp sal verleen en wanneer dit vir die hof moeilik sal wees om toesig te hou oor die uitvoering van die bevel, sien ons dat die howe geleidelik minder of selfs geen gewig aan hierdie faktore heg wanneer hulle besluit of spesifieke nakoming toegestaan moet word nie. In die derde geval, naamlik, dienskontrakte, sien ons dat die howe bereid is om in sekere gevalle spesifieke nakoming toe te staan, maar egter nie spesifieke nakoming ten opsigte van hoogs persoonlike verpligtinge gelas nie, wat verstaanbaar is tot die mate wat ons reg dwangarbeid en swak prestasies wil vermy. Die analise van die vierde grond, naamlik, buitensporige benadeling, toon dat die howe voortgaan om die belange van die verweerder en derde partye in ag te neem wanneer hulle besluit om spesifieke nakoming te beveel. Die studie het bevind dat daar sekere omstandighede is waarin die howe nooit spesifieke nakoming toestaan nie en die diskresie eintlik afwesig is. Derhalwe word dit aangevoer dat die geldende reg wat betref spesifieke nakoming weerlê kan word indien hierdie werklikheid nie in die substantiewe reg weerspieël word nie. Gegewe die vooruitsig, word moontlike oplossings ondersoek, en ‘n argument word gemaak ten gunste van ‘n eenvoudiger konkrete benadering wat meer duidelik gedefinieerde reëls erken met betrekking tot wanneer spesifieke nakoming geweier moet word ten einde regsekerheid en eenvormigheid te bevorder. Die gevolgtrekking is dat ‘n beperkte aanspraak op spesifieke nakoming meer wenslik is as ‘n reg op spesifieke nakoming wat onderhewig is aan die hof se oorheersende diskresie om dit te weier, en dat ‘n uitsondering-gebaseerde benadering as ‘n basis kan dien vir die vereenvoudiging van ons reg rakende spesifieke nakoming.