712 judgments on file that touch costs, newest first, each with the court's own file.
| Handed down | Judgment | Court |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Mar 2024 | 008/2024EC; 012/2024EC; 011/2024EC; 009/2023EC; 010/2024EC African National Congress v Electoral Commission of South Africa and Others[2024] ZAEC 3 · S 15(1) of the Electoral Commission Act of 1996 (the Electoral Commission Act) – application for the registration of a political party – Chi... | Electoral Court |
| 22 Mar 2024 | Featherbrooke Homeowners’ Association NPC v Mogale City Local Municipality[2024] ZASCA 27 · Court orders – need for clarity – court failing to make orders on disputes between parties in granting interdict – proper discretion not exe... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 20 Mar 2024 | SAP SE v Systems Applications Consultants (Pty) Ltd t/a Securinfo and Another[2024] ZASCA 26 · Application for recusal – reasonable apprehension of bias – trial judge – misconceiving the issue in the evidence – preventing counsel from... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 14 Mar 2024 | Murray and Others NNO v Ntombela and Others[2024] ZASCA 24 · Review – whether it is competent for a court to compel delivery of a rule record before determining whether what is before it is a review as... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 8 Mar 2024 | Queen Sibongile Winnifred Zulu v Queen Buhle Mathe and Others[2024] ZASCA 22 · Family law – administration of deceased estate – Marriage Act of 1961 – whether consequences of civil marriage precluded husband from conclu... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 5 Mar 2024 | Bechan and Another v SARS Customs Investigations Unit and Others[2024] ZASCA 20 · Search and seizure – Tax Administration Act of 2011 (the TAA) – interpretation – ss 59(1) and 60(1) – execution of a warrant against third p... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 28 Feb 2024 | Parry v Dunn-Blatch and Others[2024] ZASCA 19 · Company law – section 163 of the Companies Act of 2008 – whether the applicant established any act or omission having a result that is oppre... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 9 Feb 2024 | Cohen v Absa Bank Limited[2024] ZASCA 16 · Insolvency law – Interpretation – s 31(2) read with s of the Insolvency Act of 1936 – whether a surety has locus standi to invoke s 31(2) to... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 6 Feb 2024 | Lindsey and Others v Conteh[2024] ZASCA 13 · Private international law – enforceability of foreign judgment – civil procedure – provisional sentence – liquidity. 3 _____________________... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 31 Jan 2024 | Transnet SOC Ltd v Tipp-Con (Pty) Ltd and Others[2024] ZASCA 12 · Administrative law – legality review – self-review by state organ – delay – whether delay unreasonable – whether delay should be overlooked.... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 29 Jan 2024 | Ergomode (Pty) Ltd v Jordaan NO and Others[2024] ZASCA 10 · Business rescue – s 133 of the Companies Act of 2008 – moratorium on legal proceedings against company in business rescue – landlord’s hypot... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 26 Jan 2024 | Rabinowitz v Levy and Others[2024] ZASCA 8 · Arbitration award – application of s 33(1)(b) of the Arbitration Act of 1965 – whether alleged failure by arbitrator to comply with terms of... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 12 Jan 2024 | BP Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd v Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service[2024] ZASCA 2 · Tax law – Customs and Excise – interim interdict – requirements restated – demand by Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service – am... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 22 Dec 2023 | Secona Freight Logistics CC v Samie and Others[2023] ZASCA 183 · Civil procedure – locus standi – appealability – whether the issue of locus standi determined as a point in limine is appealable. | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 21 Dec 2023 | Allied Steelrode (Pty) Ltd v Dreyer and Another[2023] ZASCA 181 · National Credit Act of 2005 – whether agreement subject to the Act – loan and acknowledgment of debt not at arm’s length – interest only pay... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 18 Dec 2023 | Pieter Paul Le Roux and Another v Johannes G ` Coetzee and Seuns and Another[2023] ZACC 46 · Prescription Act 68 of 1969 — section 12(3) — clients’ professional negligence claim against legal practitioner — knowledge of facts may inc... | Constitutional Court |
| 18 Dec 2023 | Nedbank Limited and Another v Survé and Others[2023] ZASCA 178 · Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act of 2000 – application for interim interdict in Equality Court – failure to... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 18 Dec 2023 | Hough & Bremner and Another v The Road Accident Fund[2023] ZASCA 179 · Civil procedure and practice – Contingency Fees Agreement Act of 1997 – high court finding that the fees agreement concluded between the app... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 14 Dec 2023 | Grupo Bimbo S.A.B. v Takis Biltong[2023] ZASCA 175 · Reconsideration of dismissal of application for special leave to appeal ─ cancellation of applicant’s trade mark ─ Takis Fuego ─ likely to d... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 14 Dec 2023 | Mashisane v Mhlauli[2023] ZASCA 176 · Family law – customary law – civil procedure – declaratory relief sought on whether parties married according to customary law – dispute of... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 14 Dec 2023 | South African Legal Practice Council v Mokhele[2023] ZASCA 177 · Legal Practice – s of the Legal Practice Act of 2014 – whether the court may hear a matter that has become moot – the issues for determinati... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 12 Dec 2023 | Ditsoane v ACWA Power Africa Holdings (Pty) Ltd[2023] ZACC 44 · Notice of withdrawal of case — filed without client’s authority — ratification and ostensible authority not proved Labour Court – revival of... | Constitutional Court |
| 12 Dec 2023 | Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town v Minister of Home Affairs and Others[2023] ZACC 45 · Refugees Act 30 of 1998 — constitutionality of subsections 22(12) and 22(13) — provisions are unconstitutional Failure to renew visa — resul... | Constitutional Court |
| 8 Dec 2023 | Smith and Another[2023] ZASCA 174 · Civil procedure – Magistrates’ Court Act of 1944 and Rules – sheriffs’ fees and charges – whether sheriff entitled to demand payment of fees... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 5 Dec 2023 | Danny Joseph Sibiya and Others v Road Accident Fund[2023] ZASCA 171 · Practice and procedure – Contingency Fees Act of 1997 – whether the high court ruling met the benchmark of fairness, rationality and reasona... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 4 Dec 2023 | Tereza Rayment and Others v Minister of Home Affairs and Others, Richard Anderson and Others v Minister of Home Affairs and Others[2023] ZACC 40 · Immigration Act 13 of 2002 — invalidity of sections 10(6), 11(6) and 18(2) — Immigration Regulations — invalidity of regulation 9(9)(a) — in... | Constitutional Court |
| 4 Dec 2023 | Independent Candidate Association South Africa NPC v President of the Republic of South Africa[2023] ZACC 41 · Electoral Amendment Act 1 of 2023 — provision limiting seats that independent candidates can contest in the provincial and national election... | Constitutional Court |
| 4 Dec 2023 | One Movement South Africa NPC v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others[2023] ZACC 42 · Electoral Amendment Act 1 of 2023 — provision limiting seats that independent candidates can contest in the provincial and national election... | Constitutional Court |
| 1 Dec 2023 | City of Cape Town v Mtyido[2023] ZASCA 163 · Delict – widening of pleadings – wrongfulness and negligence – respondent injured as a result of open manhole under control of appellant – o... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 1 Dec 2023 | Percy Mosuetsa v Derrick Mosuetsa and Others[2023] ZASCA 164 · Civil procedure – order of court not appealed or rescinded – application to stay execution – issue res judicata unless set aside on appeal o... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 1 Dec 2023 | Islandsite Investments 180 (Pty) Ltd v National Director of Public Prosecutions and Others[2023] ZASCA 166 · Company Law –– restraint order under the Prevention of Organised Crime Act 121 of 1998 – authority to represent company in business rescue –... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 1 Dec 2023 | Kouga Local Municipality v St Francis Bay (Ward 12) Concerned Residents’ Association and Others[2023] ZASCA 168 · Local government – section of the Local Government: Municipal Property Rates Act of 2004 (PRA) – establishment by municipalities of special... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 1 Dec 2023 | Pasiya and Others v Lithemba Mining (Pty) Ltd and Others (206/2022) and Pasiya and Others v Lithemba Mining (Pty) Ltd and Others[2023] ZASCA 169 · Declaratory relief – when competent under s 21(1)(c) of Superior Courts Act of 2013 – company law – whether resolutions to increase authoris... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 30 Nov 2023 | Member of the Executive Council for Health and Social Development of the Gauteng Provincial Government v Motubatse & Another[2023] ZASCA 162 · Civil procedure – rescission of default judgment – interlocutory in nature and thus not appealable – application for condonation and special... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 28 Nov 2023 | Savoi and Others v National Prosecuting Authority and Another[2023] ZACC 38 · Confirmation of the order of constitutional invalidity granted by the High Court — North West Gambling Act 2 of 2001 — Sections 84(1)(e), 87... | Constitutional Court |
| 28 Nov 2023 | Ciba Packaging (Pty) Ltd t/a Cibapac v Timelink Cargo (Pty) Ltd[2023] ZASCA 161 · Civil procedure – appealability of dismissal of an exception – restatement of principles. | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 27 Nov 2023 | Ad Hoc Central Authority for RSA and Another v Heidi Nicole Koch N.O. and Another[2023] ZACC 37 · Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction — interpretation of Article 13(b) — determination of the threshold fo... | Constitutional Court |
| 24 Nov 2023 | African National Congress v Ezulweni Investments (Pty) Ltd[2023] ZASCA 159 · Contract – conclusion – authority to conclude – test for factual disputes – evaluation of evidence – bare denials coupled with untenable ver... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 23 Nov 2023 | and 913/2022 Armitage NO v Valencia Holdings 13 (Pty) Ltd and Others[2023] ZASCA 157 · Company law ─ action by executor of deceased shareholder’s estate ─ s 163 of the Companies Act of 2008 (the Act) ─ oppressive or unfairly pr... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 17 Nov 2023 | Minister of Justice and Correctional Services and Others v Wilhelm Pretorius and Others[2023] ZASCA 155 · Appeal – Superior Courts Act of 2013, s 16(2)(a) – mootness – whether, irrespective of mootness, interests of justice require decision on ap... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 14 Nov 2023 | MC Olesitse N.O. v The Minister of Police[2023] ZACC 35 · Application of the “once and for all” common law rule –– applicable to only one cause of action and not to more than one cause of action ––... | Constitutional Court |
| 14 Nov 2023 | Robert Andrew Groves v The Minister of Police and Another[2023] ZACC 36 · Section 43 of the Criminal Procedure Act discretion – warrant of arrest – discretion of arresting officer | Constitutional Court |
| 14 Nov 2023 | Hulisani Viccel Sithangu v Capricorn District Municipality[2023] ZASCA 151 · Application for special leave referred for oral argument in terms of s 17(2)(d) of the Superior Courts Act of 2013 – whether special leave t... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 10 Nov 2023 | Chairperson of the Western Cape Gambling and Racing Board and Others v Goldrush Group Management (Pty) Ltd and Another[2023] ZASCA 148 · Review – Gambling – Provincial Gambling Board having licenced two limited payout gambling machine operators and allocated limited payout mac... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 9 Nov 2023 | De Nysschen v Government Employees Pension Fund and Others (8642022)[2023] ZASCA 147 · Civil Procedure – whether competent for a court to grant an order for payment of a debt which was not sought – proper approach to pleadings. | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 8 Nov 2023 | Lueven Metals (Pty) Ltd v Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service[2023] ZASCA 144 · Tax law – declaratory order – whether appropriate not considered by high court – narrow basis for entertaining application for declaratory r... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 8 Nov 2023 | Majope and Others v The Road Accident Fund[2023] ZASCA 145 · Default judgment against the RAF – whether an attorney and client fee agreement should be incorporated in a court order – a court is not ent... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 2 Nov 2023 | The Body Corporate of Marsh Rose v Steinmuller and Others[2023] ZASCA 143 · Property law – Sectional Titles Act of 1986 – reliance on transfer registration embargo established in terms of s 15B(3)(a)(i)(aa) of the Se... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 30 Oct 2023 | Ex parte Minister of Home Affairs and Others In re Lawyers for Human Rights v Minister of Home Affairs and Others[2023] ZACC 34 · Immigration Act 13 of 2002 — unconstitutionality of section 34(1)(b) and (d) — invalid Ex parte application for “revival” of a lapsed suspen... | Constitutional Court |
| 30 Oct 2023 | Knoop NO and Others v National Director of Public Prosecutions (Case nos 657/2022 and 694/2022)[2023] ZASCA 141 · Prevention of Organised Crime Act 121 of 1998 (POCA) – asset forfeiture – preservation of property order – Companies Act 71 0f 2008 (Compani... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
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