515 judgments on file that touch leave to appeal, newest first, each with the court's own file.
| Handed down | Judgment | Court |
|---|---|---|
| 25 Feb 2025 | Board of Governors of Mitchell House School and Others v Maluleke[2025] ZASCA 15 · Civil Procedure – re-adjudication of concluded application by same court – functus officio – res judicata principles – Judge re-adjudicating... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 12 Feb 2025 | Ngcobo v The State[2025] ZASCA 12 · Criminal law – conviction – whether the trial court failed to exercise caution when considering the evidence of a single witness – whether t... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 10 Feb 2025 | Manwadu v Manwadu and Others[2025] ZASCA 10 · Evidence – uncertified copy of Identity Document utilised to prove customary marriage – failure to produce certificate of marriage or coroll... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 31 Jan 2025 | Magasela v The State (12572023)[2025] ZASCA 8 · Appeal against conviction and sentence – proof beyond a reasonable doubt – rejection of appellant’s version – not reasonably possibly true –... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 30 Jan 2025 | Spar Group Limited and Others v Twelve Gods Supermarket (Pty) Ltd and Others[2025] ZASCA 7 · Superior Courts Act of 2013 (the Superior Courts Act) – Reconsideration of application for special for leave to appeal – s 17(2)(f) of the S... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 29 Jan 2025 | Mashwayi Projects (Pty) Ltd and Others v Wescoal (Pty) Ltd and Others (11572023)[2025] ZASCA 5 · Company law – Companies Act of 2008 (the Act) – Chapter thereof – business rescue – whether post commencement creditors excluded from voting... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 17 Jan 2025 | Kidrogen RF (Pty) Ltd v Erasmus and Others[2025] ZASCA 3 · Arbitration – extension of time in terms of section of the Arbitration Act of 1965 – applicability, proper approach and relevant considerati... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 30 Dec 2024 | MEC for Health, Gauteng v Dr Regan Solomons[2024] ZASCA 184 · Practice and procedure – subpoena duces tecum – cause of action ceased to exist before judgment at first instance – court not entitled to pr... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 20 Dec 2024 | Commissioner for the South Africa Revenue Service v Medtronic International Trading S.A.R.L[2024] ZACC 26 | Constitutional Court |
| 20 Dec 2024 | Charnelle Commando and Others v City of Cape Town and Another[2024] ZACC 27 · Gentrification — eviction — temporary emergency accommodation — inner city Spatial apartheid — unconstitutional — progressive realisation —... | Constitutional Court |
| 20 Dec 2024 | Mawanda Makhala and Another v Director of Public Prosecutions, Western Cape[2024] ZACC 28 · Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977 — admissibility of recanted section 204 statements without other incriminating evidence — statements inadm... | Constitutional Court |
| 20 Dec 2024 | Motor Industry Staff Association and Another v Great South Africa Autobody CC t/a Great South Panelbeaters CCT298/22 & Solidarity obo Gerhardus Viljoen Strydom and Others v State Information Technology Agency Soc Limited[2024] ZACC 29 · Automatically unfair dismissal in terms of section 187(1)(f) of the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 — dismissal based on age — age discrimin... | Constitutional Court |
| 20 Dec 2024 | Sithole v S[2024] ZACC 30 · Military Discipline Supplementary Measures Act 16 of 1999 — Defence Act 42 of 2002 — military judges — judicial independence — boards of inq... | Constitutional Court |
| 20 Dec 2024 | Ingwana John Mohlaba and Others v The Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs and Others[2024] ZACC 32 · Limpopo Traditional Leadership and Institutions Act 6 of 2005 — constitutionality of section 25 — section is unconstitutional — only legisla... | Constitutional Court |
| 12 Dec 2024 | Sethosa v The State[2024] ZASCA 172 · Criminal Procedure – appeal against conviction and sentence – leave to appeal refused by the Regional Court – petition in terms of s 309C of... | 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 |
| 19 Nov 2024 | Govan Mbeki Local Municipality v Glencore Operations South Africa (Pty) Limited and Others; Emalahleni Local Municipality v Glencore Operations South Africa (Pty) Limited and Others[2024] ZACC 25 · Municipal planning by-laws — transfer embargoes — delegated powers under section 32(1) of the Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act 1... | Constitutional Court |
| 15 Nov 2024 | Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service v Diageo SA (Pty) Ltd[2024] ZASCA 158 · Customs and Excise Act of 1964 – Interpretation – classification of beverages under tariff headings – Tariff Heading 2208.470.22 (and corres... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 12 Nov 2024 | Hanekom N O and Others v Nuwekloof Private Game Reserve Farm Owners’ Association[2024] ZASCA 154 · Appeal from adjudicator under the Community Schemes Ombud Service Act of 2011 to the high court – two judges of the high court hearing appea... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 6 Nov 2024 | Merryweather v Scholtz and Another[2024] ZASCA 150 · Appeal – civil appeal from full court – trial court’s reliance on inadmissible evidence constituting an irregularity – appellant failed to d... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 4 Nov 2024 | Mluleki Martin Chithi and Others v Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform and Others (1203/2021, 1334/2021 & 261/2022)[2024] ZASCA 149 · Land claims – restitution of land – Restitution of Land Rights Act of 1994 – claim for restitution of land on grounds of being a ‘community’... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 31 Oct 2024 | Britton v Minister of Justice and Correctional Services and Others[2024] ZASCA 148 · Section 5(1)(a) of the Extradition Act of 1962 – finding of constitutional invalidity does not apply retrospectively – held that Constitutio... | 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 |
| 25 Oct 2024 | Rademeyer v Ferreira[2024] ZACC 24 · Prescription Act 68 of 1969 — sale agreement — same cause of action — breach of contract — specific performance — right to claim damages | Constitutional Court |
| 23 Oct 2024 | Transasia 444 (Pty) Ltd v The Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy and Others (702/2023) & Transasia Minerals (SA) (Pty) Ltd v The Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy and Others[2024] ZASCA 145 · Failure to cite party with direct and substantial interest in application to compel disclosure of records held by the Director-General of th... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 17 Oct 2024 | Polovin v The Director of Public Prosecutions and Others[2024] ZASCA 140 · Criminal law and procedure – private prosecution – review – whether leave to appeal should be granted in terms of s 17(2)(b) read with s 17(... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 11 Oct 2024 | Minister of Police v Nontsele[2024] ZASCA 137 · Appeals – whether the court may consider a cross-appeal in the absence of an application for leave to cross-appeal. Delict – damages for mal... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 10 Oct 2024 | Maria Luisa Palma Codevilla v Paula Jane Kennedy-Smith NO and Others[2024] ZASCA 136 · Agreement of sale of immovable property – lapsing of suspensive condition – whether revival of agreement thereafter is competent. 3 ________... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 9 Oct 2024 | Herman Botha v Bool Smuts and Another[2024] ZACC 22 · Section 14 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa — right to privacy — information in public domain — voluntary public disclosu... | Constitutional Court |
| 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 |
| 3 Oct 2024 | President of the Republic of South Africa and Others v Wezizwe Feziwe Sigcau and Others[2024] ZACC 21 · Admin law — Commission committed no error of law or fact —No basis to review the Commission’s findings — Customary law — Commission sufficie... | Constitutional Court |
| 2 Oct 2024 | Thistle Trust v Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service[2024] ZACC 19 · Income Tax Act 58 of 1962 — Section 25B — Section 26A — conduit principle — capital gains tax — beneficiaries Tax Administration Act 28 of 2... | Constitutional Court |
| 2 Oct 2024 | Greater Tzaneen Municipality v Bravospan 252 CC[2024] ZACC 20 · Compensation for services delivered pursuant to an unlawful tender process — court not placed in a position to decide substantive basis for... | Constitutional Court |
| 30 Sep 2024 | Die Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika and Others v Die Wilge Hervormde Gemeente and Others[2024] ZASCA 128 · Civil procedure – whether intervening parties should be joined in application for leave to appeal – whether high court misdirected itself in... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 26 Sep 2024 | Shongwe v The State[2024] ZASCA 127 · Murder – robbery with aggravating circumstances – whether murder premeditated – whether appellant wrongly convicted of robbery with aggravat... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 30 Aug 2024 | Mfana Ignitius Kubai v The State[2024] ZASCA 123 · Criminal law – sentence – rhino poaching – maximum sentence – s 117(1)(a) of the Limpopo Environment Management Act of 2003 – accounting for... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 15 Aug 2024 | Shoprite Checkers (Pty) Limited v Mafate N.O.[2024] ZACC 16 | Constitutional Court |
| 15 Aug 2024 | South African Human Rights Commission v Agro Data CC & Another (Afriforum, Centre for Applied Legal Studies and Commission for Gender Equality intervening as Amici Curiae)[2024] ZASCA 121 · Constitutional law – s 184(2)(b) of the Constitution – powers of the South African Human Rights Commission (the SAHRC) – whether s 184(2)(b)... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 25 Jul 2024 | Estelle Le Roux and Another v Dielemaar Holdings (Cape) Pty Ltd and Another[2024] ZASCA 118 · Contract law – contractual claim involving issues of suretyships – special plea of prescription and res judicata – whether the claim in the... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 24 Jul 2024 | Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service v Tunica Trading 59 (Pty) Ltd[2024] ZASCA 115 · Administrative Law – review of Commissioner’s decision refusing refund of excise duty and fuel levy – Customs and Excise Act of 1964 (the Ac... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 24 Jul 2024 | Botha v Botha[2024] ZASCA 116 · Leave to appeal – referred for oral argument – special leave granted – divorce – variation of a settlement agreement made a court order – wh... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 24 Jul 2024 | De Kock v Du Plessis and Others[2024] ZASCA 117 · Eviction – Prevention of Illegal Eviction from and Unlawful Occupation of Land Act of 1998 (the PIE Act) – defence – right to occupation in... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 17 Jul 2024 | Chief Avhatendi Ratshibvumo Rambuda and Others v Tshibvumo Royal Family and Others[2024] ZACC 15 · Limpopo Traditional Leadership and Institutions Act 6 of 2005 — interpretation of section 12(2) — authority to identify a new headman or hea... | Constitutional Court |
| 16 Jul 2024 | Nyhonyha N O and Others v NDPP (972; 973 & 974/22)[2024] ZASCA 113 · Prevention of Organised Crime Act 121 of 1998 – trust assets – realisable property in terms of s 14 – restraining orders in respect of prope... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 12 Jul 2024 | Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform v Land and Agricultural Bank of South Africa[2024] ZACC 14 · Prevention of Organised Crime Act 121 of 1998 — civil recovery of property under Chapter 6 — competing claims for exclusion of “interest” in... | Constitutional Court |
| 4 Jul 2024 | Sanoj Jeewan v Transnet SOC Limited and Another[2024] ZASCA 108 · Civil procedure – prescription – whether the high court was correct in finding that the appellant’s claim for contractual and delictual dama... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 4 Jul 2024 | IRD Global Limited v The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria[2024] ZASCA 109 · Civil procedure – interim interdictory relief – jurisdiction – alleged defamatory statement published on the Internet accessed in South Afri... | Supreme Court of Appeal |
| 21 Jun 2024 | Coronation Investment Management SA (Pty) Ltd v Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service[2024] ZACC 11 · Income Tax Act 58 of 1962 — section 9D exemption — foreign controlled company — foreign business establishment — meaning of “business” and “... | Constitutional Court |
| 21 Jun 2024 | Mphephu-Ramabulana Royal Family v Premier, Limpopo Province and Others[2024] ZACC 12 · Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Act 3 of 2019 — section 13(1) — recognition of traditional leader — failure to make a decision Direct le... | Constitutional Court |
| 21 Jun 2024 | AGFRI Animal Feeds v National Union of Metalworkers South Africa and Others[2024] ZACC 13 · Sections 161 and 200 of the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 — locus standi of trade union — trade union constitution — definitive of powers... | Constitutional Court |
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