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Judgments on executor

23 judgments on file that touch executor, newest first, each with the court's own file.

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28 May 2026 South African Retirement Annuity Fund v Pension Funds Adjudicator and Another[2026] ZASCA 79 · Pension Law – interpretation of s 37C(1) of the Pension Funds Act of 1956 (the Act) – interpretation of the phrase - within months of the de... Supreme Court of Appeal
13 Feb 2026 Harris N.O. and Others v Herold Gie and Broadhead Inc[2026] ZACC 6 · Housing Development Schemes Act 65 of 1988 — section 6 — repayment of entrusted funds — remedy against errant attorneys Constitutional Court
17 Dec 2025 Badenhorst N O v Manyatta Properties Close Corporation and Others[2025] ZASCA 194 Supreme Court of Appeal
28 Mar 2025 late Yasmin Salie) and Another[2025] ZASCA 26 · Delict – negligence – runner colliding with member of public during race – route on promenade not cordoned off – runner negligent in failing... Supreme Court of Appeal
12 Dec 2024 Sabdia N O and Another v Soma and Another[2024] ZASCA 174 · Administration of deceased estate – s 51(1)(a) of Administration of Estates Act of 1965 – freedom of testation – review in terms of rule of... Supreme Court of Appeal
11 Dec 2024 Smith v The Legal Practitioners’ Fidelity Fund Board[2024] ZASCA 170 · The Attorneys Act of 1979 – whether funds were ‘entrusted’, as contemplated in s 26(a) of the Attorneys Act – applicability of s 47(1)(g) –... Supreme Court of Appeal
28 Oct 2024 Du Preez N O v The Member of the Executive Council for Health of the Eastern Cape Province[2024] ZASCA 147 · Reconsideration of application for leave to appeal – s 17(2)(f) of the Superior Courts Act of 2013 – whether exceptional circumstance exists... Supreme Court of Appeal
9 Oct 2024 Swanepoel N.O. (Executor in the Estate Late Mignon Adelia Steyn) v Profmed Medical Scheme[2024] ZACC 23 · Medical Schemes Act 131 of 1998 — substitution — transmissibility of right to just administrative action — procedural fairness — material no... Constitutional Court
2 Aug 2024 Snyman v De Kooker N O and Others[2024] ZASCA 119 · Trust Property Control Act of 1988 – duty of trustees to account – sufficiency of accounting – termination of a trust pursuant to s 13 – dis... Supreme Court of Appeal
12 Jun 2024 Pitso and Others v Chabeli Molatoli Attorneys Incorporated[2024] ZASCA 94 · Agency and representation – at common law a mandate is in general terminable at the will of the principal – requirements of final interdict... Supreme Court of Appeal
18 Apr 2024 MM obo GM v Member of the Executive Council for the Department of Health, North West Province[2024] ZASCA 52 · Delict – medical negligence – transmissibility of damages to parent on death of minor child. Death of child not reported to Master – effect... 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
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
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
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
3 Aug 2023 De Graaf NO v Camilleri (5652022)[2023] ZASCA 117 · Family law – divorce – interpretation and enforceability of clauses of a consent paper concluded by ex-spouses governing the ex-wife’s entit... Supreme Court of Appeal
31 Dec 2021 Jane Bwanya v The Master of the High Court, Cape Town[2021] ZACC 51 Constitutional Court
16 Apr 2021 David Wilkinson v Georgina Elizabeth Crawford N.O[2021] ZACC 8 · Trust Deed — interpretation — freedom of testation — public policy — section 39(2) of the Constitution Constitutional Court
9 Oct 2019 Magnificent Mile Trading 30 (Pty) Limited v Celliers NO and Others[2019] ZACC 36 · Judgment on whether the right to a decision in respect of an application for a prospecting right is transmissible upon the death of the righ... Constitutional Court
29 Jun 2018 Moosa NO and Others v Minister of Justice and Correctional Services and Others (Trustees of the Women's Legal Centre Trust as Amicus Curiae)[2018] ZACC 19 Constitutional Court
1 Jun 2018 Executor of the Estate of the Late Josephine Terblanche Gouws (Charmaine Celliers N.O.) v Magnificent Mile Trading 30 (Pty) Ltd & others[2018] ZASCA 91 · Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act of 2002 – application for conversion of unused old order mineral right to new order prospect... Supreme Court of Appeal
25 May 2018 Rights of fideicommisaries upon death of fiduciary – right of executor of fiduciary’s estate to enforce eviction order granted to fiduciary – scope of res judicata where appeal does not deal with court a quo’s factual findings. Morris Material Handling Ltd v Morris Material Handling (Pty) Ltd[2018] ZASCA 67 · Trade mark – expungement from the register for non-use – s 27(1)(b) of Trade Marks Act 194 of 1993 – whether mark used by proprietor thereof... Supreme Court of Appeal
28 Mar 2018 166.55 KB Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977 - Section 316B - appeal by State – rape of 6 year old boy – sentence imposed of 10 years imprisonment of which 4 years suspended – shockingly and disturbingly lenient – no substantial and compelling circumstances present – sentence of life imprisonment substituted. CSARS v The Executors of Estate Late Sidney Ellerine[2018] ZASCA 39 · Eighth Schedule to the Income Tax Act of 1962 – valuation of preference shares for the purposes of determination of a capital gain. Supreme Court of Appeal

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