(Faculty of Law, University of the Free State, 2008) Du Plessis, M. A.
English: In achieving social justice, a law clinic has to strike a balance between teaching of students
and service to its clients. Divorce, as a simple service case, proves to be a good learning
vehicle for students, whilst affording their clients social justice. The different systems of
marriage and divorce, both in the past and present, the different divorce courts and litigation
methodology are discussed. Bearing this is mind, the question of whether universities are
failing in educating students to become lawyers, is analysed and solutions are sought
through clinical legal education, using the model of divorce proceedings.