Dr Andrew Hutchison, Associate Professor in UCT's Department of Commercial Law, recently published an article on contracts - and the possibilities of comic contracts, ie. contracts in comic format, on The Conversation. How contracts drawn up as comic strips are being put to use in South Africa is co-authored by Hutchison and Robert de Rooy of Creative Contracts.  de Rooy has lectured to the Faculty's Advanced Contract Law LLM class last year on this concept. 

How can the party supplying a contract convey the necessary information to a recipient with low literacy skills or in cross-cultural settings? This was the question which led to the idea of Comic Contracts. Comic Contracts are visually dominant contracts “written” in pictures. Parties are represented by illustrated characters, the terms of the agreement are captured as comics and the parties sign the comic as their contract.

Read the full article here.

In addition to the article, Dr Hutchison was interviewed on Cape Talk 13th April 2018 - the show can be listened to here