Newest first, read from the court's own list the day each is handed down.
| Handed down | Judgment |
|---|---|
| 23 Mar 2017 | 205.47 KB Maintenance of surviving spouse – ss 2 and 3 of the Maintenance of Surviving Spouses Act 27 of 1990 – requisites of Act not satisfied – Special leave to appeal in terms of s 17(2)(d) of the Superior Courts Act 10 of 2013 – appeal upheld. Steyn Lyell Maeyane Attorneys v Oelofse[2017] ZASCA 18 · 271/2016 · Written undertaking given by a firm of practising attorneys : whether it constituted an unconditional guarantee to make payment itself : hav... |
| 23 Mar 2017 | Van Rooyen Friedrich & others v Louw Smit NO & others 1028/2015[2017] ZASCA 19 · Maintenance of surviving spouse : ss and of the Maintenance of Surviving Spouses Act of 1990 : requisites of Act not satisfied : special lea... |
| 22 Mar 2017 | 206.52 KB Prescription – pension funds – erroneous double payment – substitution of a party after litis contestatio as a result of a cession of the debt does not give rise to a valid plea of prescription – cessionary attains all the rights of cedent – has full locus standi – impoverishment proved on the facts. Moila v City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality[2017] ZASCA 15 · 249/16 · Prescription – pension funds – erroneous double payment – substitution of a party after litis contestatio as a result of a cession of the de... |
| 22 Mar 2017 | conduct unprofessional. Sentrachem v Terreblanche[2017] ZASCA 16 · 237/2016 · Prescription – pension funds – erroneous double payment – substitution of a party after litis contestatio as a result of a cession of the de... |
| 22 Mar 2017 | Mothuloe Incorporated Attorneys v The Law Society of the Northern Provinces & another[2017] ZASCA 17 · 213/16 · Attorneys Act of 1979: complaints having been lodged with the Law Society against a practitioner for failing to account to trust creditors:... |
| 17 Mar 2017 | Panayiotou v Shoprite[2017] ZASCA 12 · 248/2016 · Refusal to grant liquor licence by Liquor Board : decision reviewed, set aside and licence granted by high court along with order that Liquo... |
| 17 Mar 2017 | Cilliers & others v Ellis & another[2017] ZASCA 13 · 200/2016 · Appeal : non-appealability of order : appellants not having locus standi to pursue the appeal : appeal dismissed. 2 ________________________... |
| 17 Mar 2017 | automatic retrospective validation of the sale in execution. SA Metal Group (Pty) Ltd v The International Trade Administration Commission[2017] ZASCA 14 · 267/2016 · Appeal – s 16(2)(a)(i) Superior Courts Act of 2013 – dismissal of appeal where judgment or order sought would have no practical effect or re... |
| 16 Mar 2017 | appeal dismissed. Westminster Tobacco Co v Philip Morris Products SA[2017] ZASCA 10 · 925/2015 · Expungement of trade mark for non-use in terms of s 27(1(b) of the Trade Marks Act 194 of 1993 – test for bona fide use of a trade mark – fa... |
| 16 Mar 2017 | Richard Du Plessis Barry v Clearwater Estates NPC & others[2017] ZASCA 11 · 187/2016 · Companies Act of 2008 : s 58(1) : appointment of proxy ‘at any time’ : s 58(3)(c) : instrument evidencing proxy to be deposited ‘before’ sha... |
| 14 Mar 2017 | Mpumalanga Tourism & Parks Agency v Barberton Mines (Pty) Ltd[2017] ZASCA 9 · 216/2016 · Mining and Environmental Law: grant of a prospecting right in terms of s 17(1) of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act of 200... |
| 10 Mar 2017 | presumption in favour of ‘one stop arbitration’. Phasha v Minister of Police[2017] ZASCA 6 · 70/2016 · Appeal: special leave to appeal in terms of s 16(1)(b) of the Superior Courts Act of 2013: intended appeal raises only factual issues in res... |
| 10 Mar 2017 | Riversdale Mining Ltd v Du Plessis[2017] ZASCA 7 · 536/2016 · Expungement of trade mark for non-use in terms of s 27(1(b) of the Trade Marks Act 194 of 1993 – test for bona fide use of a trade mark – fa... |
| 10 Mar 2017 | Herbal Zone v Infitech Technologies[2017] ZASCA 8 · 204/2016 · Passing off – requirement of reputation – failure to prove source of goods and that the reputation vested in the applicant – claim for inter... |
| 9 Mar 2017 | special leave refused. M v M[2016] ZASCA 5 · 332/2015 · Matrimonial Property Act of 1984 – Marriage out of community of property with accrual – Antenuptual contract – Exclusion of defined assets f... |
| 23 Feb 2017 | Langa v The State[2017] ZASCA 2 · 640/16 · Criminal Law: Appeal against convictions of murder and attempted murder: whether contradictions in State witnesses’ evidence were material:... |
| 21 Dec 2016 | Zulu v S[2016] ZASCA 207 · 226/2016 · Sentence – leave to appeal – misdirections by trial court – failure to take account of time in prison awaiting trial – failure to make allow... |
| 15 Dec 2016 | Pasadena v Resca[2016] ZASCA 204 · 137/2016 · Patent relating to a lockable holster : purposive interpretation : not all integers of respondents’ patent having been used by the appellant... |
| 15 Dec 2016 | Kaknis v Absa Bank Limited & another[2016] ZASCA 206 · 08/16 · Interpretation of statute: National Credit Act of 2005: section 12B(1)(b) inserted by National Credit Amendment Act of 2014: section has no... |
| 13 Dec 2016 | Salem Party Club v Salem Community[2016] ZASCA 203 · 20626/14 · Land claim to the Salem Commonage under Restitution of Land Rights Act of 1994 (the Act): whether requirements for restitution established:... |
| 9 Dec 2016 | Minister of Safety & Security v Booysen[2016] ZASCA 201 · 35/2016 · Vicarious liability – on duty police reservist shooting partner with service pistol – whether a sufficient link between the wrongful conduct... |
| 9 Dec 2016 | NDPP v Ramlutchman[2016] ZASCA 202 · 677/15 · Prevention of Organised Crime Act 121 of 1998 (POCA) – confiscation order – locus standi of accused person whose estate was sequestrated ─ s... |
| 7 Dec 2016 | Gwababa v S[2016] ZASCA 200 · 1290/16 · Leave to appeal – refusal of application by two judges of the SCA in terms of s 17(2) of the Superior Courts Act of 2013 – application to th... |
| 6 Dec 2016 | Basson v Hanna[2016] ZASCA 198 · 37/2016 · Contract: parties‟ failure to agree on interest rate in a contract does not render the contract invalid: claim for damages in lieu of specif... |
| 6 Dec 2016 | Windrush Intercontinental SA v UACC Bergshav Tankers AS[2016] ZASCA 199 · 556/2015 · Admiralty Jurisdiction Regulation Act 105 of 1983 – action in rem – maritime lien – application to set aside deemed arrest in rem of vessel... |
| 2 Dec 2016 | Shoprite v MEC for Economic Development and Environmental Affairs, KwaZulu-Natal[2016] ZASCA 193 · 78/2016 · Statutes: KwaZulu-Natal Liquor Licencing Act of 2010: liquor licences granted under repealed national Liquor Act of 1989: KwaZulu-Natal Liqu... |
| 2 Dec 2016 | Deez Realtors v SA Securitisation Program[2016] ZASCA 194 · 175/2016 · Practice: civil procedure: prescription: extinctive prescription: interruption of: service of summons on debtor by creditor claiming payment... |
| 2 Dec 2016 | Zephan v De Lange[2016] ZASCA 195 · 1068/2015 · Summary judgment: in opposing summary judgment application a defendant must set out in the answering affidavit the facts which, it contends,... |
| 2 Dec 2016 | Minister of Justice v The SA Restructuring & Insolvency Practitioners Association[2016] ZASCA 196 · 693/15 · Constitutional law: Equality and affirmative action measures: the ambit of the test for equality. Insolvency law: Insolvency Act of 1936 s 1... |
| 1 Dec 2016 | Phillips v The State[2016] ZASCA 187 · 370/2016 · The Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act of 2004 does not limit the penal discretion of the sentencing court: sentence of a fi... |
| 1 Dec 2016 | Mobile Telephone Networks v Beekmans NO[2016] ZASCA 188 · 1139/2015 · Local authority: building plans: national building regulations: temporary building: must be determined by objective assessment of its nature... |
| 1 Dec 2016 | Smalle v Southern Palace Investments 440 (Pty) Ltd[2016] ZASCA 189 · 121/2016 · Defamation: action for damages for defamation based on innuendos: whether statements made in media release and newspaper article were defama... |
| 1 Dec 2016 | Nuance Investments v Maghilda Investments & others[2016] ZASCA 190 · 189/2016 · Prescription : No evidence that the appellant knew or could by the exercise of reasonable care, have acquired knowledge of the facts giving... |
| 1 Dec 2016 | Patel v NDPP[2016] ZASCA 191 · 838/2015 · Extradition: meaning of extraditable offence in Extradition Act of 1962: double criminality: conduct to be criminal under law of requested S... |
| 30 Nov 2016 | The MEC for Health and Social Development of the Gauteng Provincial Government v Zulu[2016] ZASCA 185 · 1020/2015 · Delictual damages – ‘once and for all’ common law rule – future medical expenses – lump sum award – section 39(2) of the Constitution – deve... |
| 30 Nov 2016 | Hohne v Super Stone Mining (Pty) Ltd[2016] ZASCA 186 · 831/15 · Delictual claim : theft of diamonds from employer : admissibility of confessions to the acts in question and admission of the quantum : thre... |
| 29 Nov 2016 | Louistef v Snyders NO[2016] ZASCA 182 · Petroleum Products Act 120 of 1977: sale of site licence issued in terms of s 2D of the Act: whether site licence constituted a merchantable... |
| 29 Nov 2016 | Fluxmans v Levenson[2016] ZASCA 183 · 523/2015 · Prescription begins to run as soon as the creditor acquires knowledge of the minimum facts necessary to institute action: knowledge that the... |
| 28 Nov 2016 | Kaywood v S[2016] ZASCA 179 · 394/2016 · Criminal law: appeal against sentences of life imprisonment for rape and years’ imprisonment for attempted murder following a gruesome attac... |
| 28 Nov 2016 | Mthimkhulu v The State[2016] ZASCA 180 · 1135/15 · Criminal Procedure – appeal against conviction – leave to appeal refused by regional magistrate – petition refused by the court a quo – spec... |
| 28 Nov 2016 | Mahlalela v S[2016] ZASCA 181 · 396/16 · Criminal Law – murder and robbery with aggravating circumstances: whether State proved beyond reasonable doubt that the appellant was one of... |
| 25 Nov 2016 | SABC v Masstores[2015] ZASCA 174 · 1221/15 · Meaning of „sell‟ in s 27(4) of the Broadcasting Act of 1999 – whether mere agreement of sale or sale completed by delivery contemplated – d... |
| 25 Nov 2016 | Urban Hip Hotels v KCarrim[2016] ZASCA 173 · 1177/2015 |
| 25 Nov 2016 | Brodsky Trading 224CC v Cronimet Chrome Mining SA[2016] ZASCA 175 · 39/2016 · Estate Agency Affairs Act 112 of 1976 – estate agent company converted to close corporation in terms of s of the Close Corporations Act of 1... |
| 25 Nov 2016 | MEC Health, Eastern Cape v Mkhitha[2016] ZASCA 176 · 1221/15 · Delict – negligence – liability for – causation – person unable to walk and confined to wheelchair after medical treatment for injuries sust... |
| 25 Nov 2016 | Rand Water Board v Big Cedar 22 (Pty) Ltd[2016] ZASCA 177 · 1038/15 · Statutory power to lay pipeline across private land – s 24(j) of Act of 1950 – no servitude registered over land in respect of pipeline – pr... |
| 25 Nov 2016 | FirstRand Bank v Normandie Restaurants 189/2016[2016] ZASCA 178 · Companies Act of 2008: business rescue proceedings: whether a company which is in financial distress has reasonable prospects of being rescu... |
| 24 Nov 2016 | 227.28 KB Freshvest Investments (Pty) Ltd v Marabeng (Pty) Ltd[2016] ZASCA 168 · 1030/2015 · Winding-up application: respondent disputing debt on bona fide and reasonable grounds: court a quo referring matter to oral evidence: windin... |
| 24 Nov 2016 | FirstRand Bank Limited t/a First National Bank v Makaleng[2016] ZASCA 169 · 034/16 · Civil Procedure: an order by the high court postponing, sine die, an application for default judgment, and directing the appellant to file,... |
| 24 Nov 2016 | Plekenpol v The State[2016] ZASCA 171 · 772/15 · Sentence: fatal assault with knobkierie: subsequent robbery: plea of guilty to murder read with Criminal Law Amendment Act 105 of 1997 and r... |