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The State as Trustee of Land

2000· article· en· W2226823929 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
T.W. Bennett, Cathleen Powell

Bibliographic record

VenueSouth African Journal on Human Rights · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLegal Issues in South Africa
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFiduciaryDutyLawState (computer science)PlaintiffConstitutionDoctrineCommon lawPolitical scienceArgument (complex analysis)Trust law

Abstract

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This article examines the origins and development of state land trusts in South Africa, and considers the legal remedies to which the beneficiaries of such trusts may be entitled. The action taken by the Bafokeng is one of the few reported cases in which black communities have sought to challenge the disposal of their rights by the state. South African administrative law, even after the advent of the right to just administrative action in the 1996 Constitution, does not impose a clear fiduciary duty on the state to act in the interests of trust beneficiaries in this situation. By contrast, courts in the United States and Canada have developed a set of principles (which the article considers in some detail) to protect the beneficiaries of state land trusts. The argument is then advanced that state bodies administering land under trust in South Africa should be held legally accountable for their actions, and that potential plaintiffs can look to private law for the necessary remedies. Most state land trusts satisfy the private-law requirements for creating a trust relationship. Neither the apparent absence of a doctrine of aboriginal title in South Africa nor the unwillingness of South African courts to circumscribe the state's powers to act in the public interest override the basic principle that vulnerable groups should be entitled to legal protection. If this principle is accepted, the content of the South African state's fiduciary duty in relation to state land trusts should be developed by extending existing private-law rules on a case by case basis.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.852
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0030.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.316
Teacher spread0.293 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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Published2000
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