385 judgments on file that touch evidence, newest first, each with the court's own file.
| Handed down | Judgment | Court |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Apr 2024 | Summermania Eleven (Pty) Ltd v Hattingh N O[2024] ZASCA 42 · Contract law – breach of a warranty – onus on the plaintiff to prove breach. Civil procedure – in a trial, evidence is given orally – court... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 28 Mar 2024 | Cyril and Another v The Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service[2024] ZASCA 32 · Practice – Appealability – application to review ruling on admissibility in criminal trial while trial still pending – leave given to compla... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 27 Mar 2024 | Syce and Another v Minister of Police[2024] ZASCA 30 · Application for special leave to appeal – referred for oral argument in terms of s 17(2)(d) of the Superior Courts Act of 2013 – discretion... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 26 Mar 2024 | Technology Corporate Management (Pty) Ltd and Others v De Sousa and Another[2024] ZASCA 29 · Companies Act of 1973 – s 252 – claim that manner in which the business of the company has been conducted was unfairly prejudicial, inequita... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 20 Mar 2024 | Nong and Masingi v The State[2024] ZASCA 25 · Criminal Procedure – appeal against conviction – leave to appeal refused by regional magistrate – petition in terms of s 309C refused by the... | 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 |
| 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 | MEC of Health and Social Development of the Gauteng Provincial Government v M[2024] ZASCA 21 · Delict – claim for medical negligence damages – minor born with brain injury sustained during birth – whether hospital staff were negligent... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 21 Feb 2024 | Sekoala v The State[2024] ZASCA 18 · Criminal law and procedure – appeal against rape conviction – whether the evidence of the complainant, a single witness, was correctly accep... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 17 Jan 2024 | Mhlontlo Local Municipality & 2 others v Ngcangula and Another[2024] ZASCA 5 · Jurisdiction of the high court – whether withdrawal of salary increment constitutes a breach of contract of employment – jurisdiction of civ... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 16 Jan 2024 | Cupido v The State[2024] ZASCA 4 · Criminal law and Procedure – reliance on single witness – whether the court applied the cautionary rule in respect of single witness –admiss... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 23 Dec 2023 | Eskom v Vaal River Development Association (Pty) Ltd and Others[2022] ZACC 44 · Interim interdicts — nature of prima facie right — rights in Bill of Rights — content of rights — whether rights established — role of final... | Constitutional Court |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 5 Dec 2023 | De Klerk v The State[2023] ZASCA 172 · Criminal law and procedure – appeal – appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal against the refusal of a petition in the high court seeking leav... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 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 |
| 4 Dec 2023 | Andrew Barney August v The State[2023] ZASCA 170 · Application for condonation of the late filing of notice of appeal – requirements for condonation restated – appellant not satisfying requir... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 1 Dec 2023 | Legal Practice Council v Bulelani Rubushe[2023] ZASCA 167 · Legal Practitioner – misconduct involving dishonesty – striking from the roll appropriate remedy – court a quo making material misdirection... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 28 Nov 2023 | Bisschoff N O obo Reyners v Passenger Rail Agency Of South Africa[2023] ZASCA 160 · Prescription – interruption of running of extinctive prescription – claimant of unsound mind – prescription only begins to run from the date... | 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 |
| 21 Nov 2023 | Ntshongwana v The State[2023] ZASCA 156 · Criminal law – defence of pathological incapacity – ss 78(1A) and 78(1B) of the Criminal Procedure Act of 1977 – onus on accused to prove la... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 17 Nov 2023 | Smit v The State[2023] ZASCA 154 · Criminal law and procedure – fraud – whether appellant had intent, in the form of dolus eventualis, to commit fraud – whether the appellant,... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 15 Nov 2023 | King Price Insurance Company Limited v Mhlongo[2023] ZASCA 152 · Civil procedure – claim under insurance policy arising from motor vehicle collision – market value pleaded – evidence led on shortfall of am... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 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 |
| 30 Oct 2023 | Fleet Africa (Pty) Limited v Polokwane Local Municipality[2023] ZASCA 142 · Contract law – jurisdiction – Superior Courts Act of 2013 – whether the parties explicitly agreed that a particular high court would have ex... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 27 Oct 2023 | Mohuba v University of Limpopo[2023] ZASCA 139 · Whether the relationship between a university and a student is contractual or administrative in nature – refusal by a university to confer a... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 25 Oct 2023 | Ba-Gat Motors CC t/a Gys Pitzer Motoring and Another v Kempster Sedgwick (Pty) Ltd[2023] ZASCA 137 · Summary judgment – non-variation clause – oral agreement alleged – application of the Shifren principle and estoppel. | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 11 Oct 2023 | M M v MEC for Health; Eastern Cape[2023] ZASCA 130 · Delict – medical negligence – damages – claim for damages arising out of alleged medical negligence of hospital staff- whether the hospital... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 10 Oct 2023 | Natasha Liebenberg v The State[2023] ZACC 33 · Admissions in terms of section 220 of the Criminal Procedure Act 57 of 1977 — admissibility of evidence in disciplinary hearing –– lack of j... | Constitutional Court |
| 3 Oct 2023 | Sasol Chevron Holdings Limited v Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service[2023] ZACC 30 · Promotion of Administrative Justice Act 3 of 2000 (PAJA) — delay in instituting application for review — section 7(1) of PAJA — 180-day peri... | Constitutional Court |
| 3 Oct 2023 | Nu Africa Duty-Free Shops (Pty) Limited v Minister of Finance and Others CCT29/22,[2023] ZACC 31 | Constitutional Court |
| 28 Sep 2023 | Integrity Forensic Solutions CC v Amajuba District Municipality[2023] ZASCA 124 · Contract – whether proved that contracting parties reached consensus on terms of agreement – narrow factual issue determined at trial – appe... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 24 Aug 2023 | Mncwabe v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others And Mathenjwa v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others (Consolidated matters)[2023] ZACC 29 · National Prosecuting Authority Act 32 of 1998 — sections 12, 13(1) and 14(3) — Appointments in National Prosecuting Authority — Functus offi... | Constitutional Court |
| 21 Aug 2023 | Rand Refinery Limited v Sehunane N.O. and Others[2023] ZACC 28 · Section 34 of the Bill of Rights — Labour Court deciding case without reference to answering affidavit — fundamental right of access to cour... | Constitutional Court |
| 15 Aug 2023 | Koch & Kruger Brokers CC and Another v Financial Sector Conduct Authority and Others[2023] ZACC 27 · Section 34 of Bill of Rights — separated issue — High Court allegedly straying beyond separated issue — separated issue misconceived | Constitutional Court |
| 13 Jul 2023 | Democratic Alliance v Public Protector and Others; President of the Republic of South Africa v Public Protector and Others CCT251/22,[2023] ZACC 25 · Section 194 of the Constitution — suspension of the Public Protector — Apprehension of bias — Sub judice rule — conflict of interest | Constitutional Court |
| 12 Jul 2023 | South African Council of Educators v Deon Scheepers and Others[2023] ZACC 23 · South African Council of Educators — professional discipline | Constitutional Court |
| 23 Jun 2023 | Independent Outdoor Media (Pty) Ltd v The Body Corporate of Overbeek Building and others[2023] ZACC 17 · Declaration of constitutional invalidity — Section 29(8) of the National Building Regulations and Building Standards Act 103 of 1977 — Minis... | Constitutional Court |
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