TLI4801 Assignment 2 2025 – Due 10 April 2025

TLI4801

Assignment 02 – Semester 1 2025

Answer the following questions using proper references. Your entire assignment answer
(questions 1 (a)-(d)) must be typed and must not exceed 15 pages.

1. You are an attorney appearing for John Sibeko who is charged in the Pretoria
Magistrates’ Court with the offence of assault with the intention to do grievous bodily harm.
Your instructions from your client are that he wants to plead not guilty to the charge.

(a) Draft his statement that will make up his plea. You must include all headings
and conclusions. Make use of your own facts and any information you may deem
necessary for the statement to be accepted by the court.

IN THE MAGISTRATES’ COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PRETORIA HELD AT
PRETORIA

Case No: 2024/1456

In the matter between:

THE STATE

and

JOHN SIBEKO