Lorraine Wolhuter 

Lecturer 

Business Law and Sport  

Email:

Lorraine.Wolhuter@winchester.ac.uk 

Phone:

01962 826387  

Address:

Biography

Ms Lorraine Wolhuter, BA LLB LLM (Cape Town), is a lecturer in the Department of Law at Winchester University. She teaches the Law of Evidence, the Law of Tort, and Public Law.

Expertise

Lorraine’s areas of expertise are victims’ rights and criminal justice

Publications

• ‘German and Swedish procedures as models for the empowerment of racial minority women in rape trials’ (2010) 38 International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice 1-16
• Wolhuter, L., Denham, D. and Olley, N. Victimology: Victimisation and Victims’ Rights (2009: Routledge-Cavendish, Abingdon)
• ‘Domestic violence’ in Chapter 9 ‘Women’s freedom and security of the person’ Albertyn, C. and Bonthuys, E. (eds.) Gender, Law and Justice (2007: Juta and Co., Cape Town)
• ‘Gender equality and the Constitution’ in LAWSA Vol 10: Gender (2005: Butterworths, Durban) pars 397 - 408
• ‘Levelling the playing fields - A feminist redefinition of the crime of rape’ (1998) 61(3) Tydskrif vir Hedendaagse Romeins-Hollandse Reg 443-462
• ‘Equality and the concept of difference: Same-sex marriages in the light of the Final Constitution’ (1997) 114(2) South African Law Journal 389-411
• ‘Balancing the scales - Access by a natural father to his extra-marital child’ (1997) 8(1) Stellenbosch Law Review 65-79
• ‘Excuse them though they do know what they do - The distinction between justification and excuse in the context of battered women who kill’ (1996) 9 South African Journal of Criminal Justice 151-166
• ‘Horizontality in the Interim and Final Constitutions’ (1996) 11(2) South African Public Law 512-527
• Murray, C., Hale, I., Miller, S., O’Sullivan, M. and Wolhuter, L. ‘Women’s rights’ (1996)

Research Interests

Lorraine’s main area of research interest is victims’ rights. She is currently in the process of completing a doctoral thesis on enforceable rights for victims of crime. She is also co-authoring a book entitled Crime and Criminology in South Africa (under contract with Routledge).

 

Funding Awards and Professional Membership

• Member, Criminological and Victimological Society of Southern Africa (CRIMSA)
• Scholarship,