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Judgments

2000
  Case Nr Title Judgment Date
543/98 Van Immerzeel & Pohl and another v Samancor Ltd
Construction Contract - Identity of Contractor - Prescription -Knowledge of identity of debtor- Proof of Cession - Damages claim by employer for breach of construction contract where work to be done on land of third party - contractor liable for breach by nominated sub-contractor - reduction of damages claim
30 Nov 2000
620/98 Syfrets Participation Bond Managers Ltd v Commissioner for South African Revenue Service
Income Tax - whether participations by manager of participation bond scheme in scheme are "trading stock" - whether any diminution in value by reason
30 Nov 2000
002/99 Datacolor International (Pty) Ltd v Intamarket (Pty) Ltd
Anticipatory breach of contract - objective test for repudiation - whether certain letters amounted to an unlawful repudiation or merely to an offer to
30 Nov 2000
118/99 Chairman of the Board on Tariffs and Trade v Volkswagen of South Africa (Pty) Ltd and another
Customs and Excise Act 91 of 1964 - repeal of note 5(vi)(a)(ii) to rebate item 609.17 of Schedule 6 - effect thereof - whether right to approach the Board on Tariffs and Trade for a recommendation in terms thereof survived the repeal - s 12(2)(c) of the Interpretation Act 33 of 1957
30 Nov 2000
119/01 S v Koutandos
On plurality if counts - cumulative effect
29 Nov 2000
466/98 Van der Berg v Coopers & Lybrand Trust (Pty) Ltd and others
Defamation - of advocate in course of legal proceedings - privileged occasion - relevance - vicarious liability - quantum
29 Nov 2000
622/98 Thompson v South African Broadcasting Corporation
Claim for damages in delict - whether element of causation proved
29 Nov 2000
522/98 Saccawu v President of the Industrial Tribunal and another
Industrial Tribunal - members alleged to be biased - whether bias established
29 Nov 2000
089/99 Kaap Suiwelkoöperasie Ltd v Louw
Koöperasie - bedanking as lid - ooreenkoms om inwerkingtrede te vervroeg
29 Nov 2000
562/98 Gauteng Provincial Legislature v Kilian and others
Powers of the Speaker of the Gauteng Legislature to give an undertaking in regard to costs concerning the resolution of a dispute as to the constitutionality of a Bill by the Constitutional Court in terms of ss 98(2)(d) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 200 of 1993
29 Nov 2000
404/99 Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service v Executor of the Estate of the Late Waldo Earl Frith
Estate duty - Section 4(q) deduction - computation
29 Nov 2000
072/99_1
072/99_2
National Sorghum Breweries (Pty) Ltd t/a Vivo Africa Breweries v International Liquor Distributors (Pty) Ltd
Claims for restitution and damages in separate actions. Exceptio rei judicatae and the "once and for all" rule
28 Nov 2000
607/98 Zwiegelaar v Zwiegelaar
Section 7(2) of the Divorce Act No 70 of 1979 - what constitutes maintenance
28 Nov 2000
297/99 Sunny South Canners (Pty) Ltd v Mbangxa and others
Locus standi of the liquidators of a corporation to launch liquidation proceedings against a debtor company; discretion of the court to grant a liquidation order
28 Nov 2000
003/99 Hlobo v Multilateral Motor Vehicle Accidents Fund
Litigation - action settled by agreement between attorneys - sefendant contending that authority given to its attorney was given in error - application to set aside settlement
28 Nov 2000
581/98 Ess Kay Electronics (Pty) Ltd and another v First National Bank Of Southern Africa Ltd
Vicarious liability for employee's fraud - course of employment - ostensible authority
28 Nov 2000
112/99 Dabelstein and others v Lane & Fey NNO
Attachment to found or confirm jurisdiction - prima facie case - insolvency - setting aside disposition in compliance with court order
28 Nov 2000
157/99 Cape Metropolitan Council v Graham
Landslide on Chapman's Peak Drive on the Cape Peninsula - wet period - motorist seriously injured - local government body entrusted with management of road held to be liable in delict
27 Nov 2000
585/98 Nedcor Bank Beperk v Regering van die Republiek van Suid-Afrika
Bevrydende verjaring - begin van loop van - kennis van die feite waaruit die skuld ontstaan het - delektuele aksie teen invorderingsbankier - betaling strydig met die trekker se opdrag - of eiser kennis moet dra aan wie betaling gemaak is alvorens verjaring kan begin loop
24 Nov 2000
153/99 Commissioner of SA Revenue Services v Volkswagen of South Africa (Pty) Limited
Income Tax - Capital receipts or accruals - vehicles used by the manufacturer in conducting its business and then sold
24 Nov 2000
656/98 Road Accident Fund v Russell
Legal causation - whether death by suicide of a person of impaired mind and judgment, a novus actus interveniens
24 Nov 2000
528/98 Cooper NO and others v South African Mutual Life Assurance Society and others
Sections 414(2) and 424 of the Companies Act 61 of 1973
22 Nov 2000
374/99 S v Peterson en 'n ander
Jeugdiges behoort nie gevangenisstraf opgelê te word sonder volledige verslae en getuienis van proefbeamptes of maatskaplike beamptes of sielkundiges nie.
21 Nov 2000
288/98 Peters NO and others v Schoeman and others
Company law - Contravention of s38 of Act 61 of 1973 - Scheme for avoiding of - court to have regard to true nature of agreement and disregard parties' description thereof
10 Nov 2000
373/98 Transnet Ltd v Goodman Brothers (Pty) Ltd
Duty to give reasons to unsuccessful tenderer under the Constitution - administrative action - right or interest to obtain reasons
09 Nov 2000
310/98 Carmichele v Minister of Safety and Security and another
Delictual action for damages
02 Oct 2000
413/98 Moloi and others v Road Accident Fund
Multilateral Motor Vehicle Accidents Regulations, 1989 - Regulation 3(2)(a)(i) - Validity
29 Sep 2000
401/98 McCarthy v Additional Magistrate, Johannesburg and others
Constitutionality of ss 286A and 286B of the Criminal Procedure Act - Dangerous Offender legislation - Indefinite imprisonment compared with life imprisonment
29 Sep 2000
223/98 Coin Security Group (Pty) Ltd v SA National Union for Security Officers and others
Appeal dismissed in terms of s 21A of Supreme Court Act 59 of 1959
29 Sep 2000
206/98 Bata Ltd v Face Fashions CC and another
Trade marks - alleged infringements - sections 34(1)(a) and (c) of the Trade Marks Act, 1993
29 Sep 2000
303/98 De Jager en andere v ABSA Bank Bpk
Regsgeldigheid van onderneming deur 'n skuldenaar om nie verjaring te opper nie na uitwissing van onderliggende skuld
29 Sep 2000
451/98 Tecmed (Pty) Ltd v Eastern Cape Provincial Tender Board and others
Review of Tender Board's decision to award tender - costs
29 Sep 2000
290/98 Greathead v South African Commercial Catering & Allied Workers Union
Invalidity of agency shop agreement - failure to comply with provisions of s25(3) of Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995
29 Sep 2000
507/98, 571/98 Commissioner for Customs & Excise v Standard General Insurance Company Ltd and Standard General Insurance Company Ltd v Commissioner for Customs & Excise
Customs Act 91 of 1964 - Whether s 99(5) is a limitation period. Applicability of s 13(1)(g) read with s 16(1) of the Prescription Act 68 of 1969 to a claim in terms of the Customs Act
29 Sep 2000
286/98 Coetzee v Meevis
Unlawful attachment - sheriff's liability
29 Sep 2000
176/00 South African Raisins (Pty) Ltd and another v SAD Holdings Ltd and another
Competition Act 89 of 1998 - Whether raisin industry falls within its ambit or within the Marketing of Agricultural Products Act 47 of 1996
29 Sep 2000
334/98 Eastern Metropolitan Substructure of the Greater Johannesburg Transitional v Venter NO
Insolvency - payment to obtain clearance certificate under section 50 of Local Government Ordinance 1939 (Transvaal).
29 Sep 2000
305/99 Director of Public Prosecutions Transvaal v Roberts
Sentence - murder of ex-wife by strangulation - appeal by Director of Public Prosecutions against leniency of wholly suspended sentence of 15 years imprisonment - mitigating circumstances present - sentence altered to 7 years imprisonment
29 Sep 2000
541/98 Fairleigh NO v Whitehead and another
Interpretation and operation of the since-invalidated ss 44(1) and (2) of the Insurance Act 27 of 1943, which dealt with insurance policies effected or ceded in favour of a wife
29 Sep 2000
272/98 Cooper NO v First National Bank of SA Ltd
Issue of warrant in terms of sec 69(3) of the Insolvency Act 24 of 1936 - when notice to affected person required
29 Sep 2000
230/99 S v Mohlathe
Further evidence in support of application for condonation for late filing of heads of argument in Court below admitted on appeal - circumstances justifying admission of such evidence
29 Sep 2000
127/99 S v Ningi and another
Sentence - 18 months imprisonment for public violence - correctional supervision not a sentencing option by reason of imprisonment imposed on other counts - convictions on other counts set aside on appeal
29 Sep 2000
247/99 S v Swart
Verskerping daarvan op appèl - Oplegging van globale vonnis - neem van twee of meer klagtes vir vonnisdoeleindes onwenslike praktyk, maar blote verontagsaming van praktyksreël nie noodwendig 'n mistasting nie
29 Sep 2000
389/99 S v Mathlare
Criminal trial - whether admissions deducible from questions put in cross-examination by accused's legal representative
29 Sep 2000
281/98 H L & H Timber Products (Pty) Ltd v Sappi Manufacturing (Pty) Ltd
Forest fire - s 84 of the Forest Act 122 of 1984 - onus
29 Sep 2000
389/98 Plaaslike Oorgangsraad van Bronkhorstspruit v Senekal
Uitleg van'n uitspraak van 'n hof; uitleg van die statute van 'n gratifikasiefonds, betekenis van oortolligheid (redundancy) en uitdiensstelling (retrenchment). Bestrawwende kostebevele teen praktisyns
29 Sep 2000
558/98 Kelvin Park Properties CC v Paterson NO
Insolvency - s 34(1), Insolvency Act 24 of 1936 - whether insolvent "trader" as envisaged by s 34 - whether property on which business conducted by insolvent formed part of business
29 Sep 2000
580/98 ABSA Bank Limited v Bond Equipment (Pretoria) (Pty) Ltd
Delictual action for damages against collecting bank guilty of negligence - vicarious liability of claimant for wrongful action of its employee in regard to the proceeds of cheques of the employer wrongfully stolen by the employee for his own benefit
29 Sep 2000
613/98; 614/98 Purser v Sales
Practice - Judgments and Orders - Foreign judgments - Enforcement of - action defended - whether failure to object to jurisdiction amounts to submission thereto.
28 Sep 2000
229/98 Mamabolo v Rustenburg Regional Local Council
Review - Undue delay - applicable principles - Rules of natural justice - Procedural fairness - compliance therewith - i r o termination of employment
26 Sep 2000
657/98 Wessels NO v De Jager NO en ‘n ander
No Summary
22 Sep 2000
486/98 Pretorius v Slabbert
Non-joinder - raised mero motu - not to speculate on what uninvited party might wish to say - appeal postponed
22 Sep 2000
383/98 Johnson v Hirotec (Pty) Ltd
Winding-up of company unable to pay debts - factors to be considered - whether provisional order required
22 Sep 2000
440/98 Krige Le Roux v Standard General Versekerings-Maatskappy Bpk
Uitleg van art 156 van die Insolvensiewet 24 van 1936 - eiser verkry nie beter reg onder artikel as wat die versekerde self geniet het nie - versekeraar kan op sy kontraktuele regte kragtens polis staatmaak
21 Sep 2000
443/98 ABSA Bank Beperk v De Villiers
Borgtog - Verjaringswet - Beletsel ingevolge art 13(1)(g).
15 Sep 2000
429/98 Singh v McCarthy Retails Ltd (t/a McIntosh Motors)
Contract - malperformance - right of rescission - test - value judgment of Court.
14 Sep 2000
274/98 Adel Builders (Pty) Ltd v Thompson
Unliquidated damages claimed - pre-judgment interest - discretion of Court
12 Sep 2000
226/98 Cooper and others v Syfrets Trust Limited
Investment advice negligently given in 1990 to the appellant by an employee of the respondent to invest in Masterbond - whether such advice held firm for a reinvestment made by the appellant in Masterbond in 1991
11 Sep 2000
173/97 S v Rheeder
Verwydering en gebruik van eiendom sonder toestemming van die eienaar - oortreding van Artikel 1(1) van die Algemene Regswysigingswet 50 van 1956
08 Sep 2000
257/98 Nedcor Bank Limited v Lloyd-Gray Lithographers (Pty) Limited
Delictual action for damages against collecting bank - computation of damages - bank and thief for whom amount of cheque collected concurrent wrongdoers at common law - full amount of loss recoverable from bank
08 Sep 2000
427/98 Mars Incorporated v Cadbury (Swaziland) (Pty) Limited and another
Trade marks - defensive trade marks - s 70 of the Trade Marks Act, 1993
08 Sep 2000
513/98 S M Goldstein & Co (Pty) Limited v Cathkin Park Hotel (Pty) Ltd and another
Delictual liability of building contractor to owner and third parties
08 Sep 2000
356/98 Mostert v Cape Town City Council
burst water main - cause uncertain - inappropriateness of res ipsa reasoning - extent of municipality's duty to prevent damage to property - insurance - pressure testing - replacement - cost of compared with damage done
07 Sep 2000
337/98 Commissioner for the SA Revenue Services v Hulett Aluminium (Pty) Ltd
I
ncome Tax - Third Proviso to s79(1) of Act 58 of 1962 - whether general prevailing practice established
01 Sep 2000
263/98 Serva Ship Limited v Discount Tonnage Limited
Jurisdiction - situs of rights in personam - maritime claims
31 Aug 2000
194/98 Midrand/ Rabie Ridge/ Ivory Park Metropolitan Substructure v Strydom
Ordinance 11 of 1977 - Local Authorities (Transvaal) - rating
31 Aug 2000
384/98 Gordon Lloyd Page & Associates v Rivera and another
Confidential information
31 Aug 2000
623/98; 627/98 Dali and others v Government of Republic of South Africa and another
Privatisation Venda Pension Fund - amounts due - retrospectivity of S 8 of Proc 9 of 1993(V)
31 May 2000
134/98 Commissioner for South African Revenue Services v Foodcorp Limited
Income Tax - what constitutes "a mining property" in terms of Section 37 of Income Tax Act - referral back to Commissioner for re-assessment
31 May 2000
106/98 Van Der Merwe v Bonaero Park (Edms) Bpk
Voorlopige vonnis - eiser se versuim om op aanvraag behoorlik sekerheid ingevolge reël 8(9) te stel
31 May 2000
071/98 Mthembu v Letsela and another
No Summary
30 May 2000
126/98 Baudach v United Tobacco Company Ltd
Unfair labour practice - employer misrepresenting to employee that his position had become redundant - agreement to accept package in full and final settlement not binding
30 May 2000
624/98 Minister of Health and another v Maliszewski and others
Registration of medical doctors with foreign qualifications - extension of special dispensation given in 1991 by SA Medical and Dental Council. Punitive costs order as regards unnecessary exhibits
30 May 2000
488/98 ABSA Bank Beperk v Ons Beleggings BK
Bank se aanspreeklikheid vir skadevergoeding teenoor kliënt - bewys van skade.
29 May 2000
311/97 Municipality of Cape Town v Bakkerud
Municipality - permissive road and pavement repairing powers - liability at common law for damage caused by holes in pavement - widening of ambit of liability for omissions in law of delict - whether earlier "municipality cases" decided in AD remain authoritative
29 May 2000
518/98 Road Accident Fund v Mothupi
Third Party claim - insurer invokes prescription - plaintiff's response, based on the insurer's concession of the negligence of the insured driver, fourfold: (i) implied waiver; (ii) estoppel; (iii) interruption; (iv) constitutional unfairness
29 May 2000
168/98 Lieberman v Santam Ltd
Special plea of prescription misdirected. Appellant's cause of action not based upon the Multilateral Motor Vehicle Accidents Fund Act 93 of 1989 but upon a new agreement between the parties
29 May 2000
548/98 Premier of the Free State Provincial Government and others v Firechem Free State (Pty) Limited
Tender boards - proper tender procedures - interpretation of contracts - presumption of legality - agreements to agree - severance - fictional fulfilment - record - costs of disallowed - practice note - part of counsel's fees disallowed
29 May 2000
211/98 Bekker and another v Oos-Vrystaat Kaap Koöperasie Beperk
Validity of conclusive evidence clause in co-operative society statute - where no written objection by member within three months - when additional finance charges recoverable under sec 4(1) - whether finance charges recoverable despite non-compliance by creditor with sec 10(6)
26 May 2000
087/98 Minister of Safety and Security v Jordaan
Motor collision - whether policeman driving in the course and scope of his employment.
26 May 2000
107/98 South African Chemical Workers Union and another v African Commerce Developing Company (Pty) Ltd t/a Buffalo Tapes
Labour Law - condonation - grant of - appealability - interpretation of s17 (21A)(a) of Act 28 of 1956
26 May 2000
700/98 Schlumberger Logelco Inc v Coflexip S A
Patent infringement within the exclusive economic zone
25 May 2000
526/97 NST Ferrochrome (Pty) Limited v Commissioner for Inland Revenue
Deduction in terms of s 12 C of Income Tax Act - meaning of "any person" in subpara (d)(iv) of definition of "connected person" in s 1.
25 May 2000
220/98 Prince v President of the Law Society of the Cape of Good Hope and others
Candidate attorney - contract of community service - Whether applicant for registration is a fit and proper person if he persists in using cannabis in the observance of his Rastafarian religion - General prohibition in s 4 (b) of Act 140 of 1992 and s 22A (10) of Act 101 of 1065 not unconstitutional
25 May 2000
586/97 S v Jonas
Criminal procedure - numerous serious misdirections by magistrate - as to major conflicts between State witnesses, evaluation of defence witnesses, facts conceded by State, whether unlawful in itself to enter bus through open window
12 May 2000
166/99 Supreme Gambling CC v Minister of Safety and Security and others
Statutes: promulgation and commencement
12 May 2000
105/99 S v Boesak
Criminal law - theft and fraud - authenticity and admissibility of letter apparently written by appellant - inferences therefrom - when deviation from purpose for which trust money donated amounts to theft - sentence
12 May 2000
424/98

Van Rensburg v Minister of Defence
Defence act regulations - interpretation - differences between English and Afrikaans texts - appellant attempting to reject one condition of his transfer while accepting others

31 Mar 2000
044/00 Standard Bank Investment Corporation v Competition Commission and others
Bank merger - insurance merger - regulatory authorities - whether Minister of Finance and Registrar of Long-Term Insurance - or whether competition authorities as well - interpretation of statutes - literal and purposive construction
31 Mar 2000
051/98 Kempton Park/Tembisa Metropolitan Substructure v Kelder
Municipal council - interpretation of Council Resolutions - Mandamus to Compel Compliance
31 Mar 2000
645/97 David Trust and others v Aegis Insurance Company Ltd and another
Insurance - professional indemnity policy - accountants accepting mandate to administer and invest funds of clients in a money market - theft by
31 Mar 2000
554/97 Provinsie van die Vrystaat v Williams NO
Gevolge van wysiging van besonderhede van vordering op voldoening aan vereistes van Wet op Beperking van Regsgedinge 94 van 1970
29 Mar 2000
651/97 National Police Service Union and others v Minister of Safety and Security and others
Police Service - Rationalisation scheme providing for transfer of members to fixed establishment - promulgation not required - whether membership of Police Medical Scheme compulsory
29 Mar 2000
057/99 S v Sadler
Sentence - appeal by State - increase of - when justified - "white collar" crime
28 Mar 2000
222/98 LSA UK Ltd (formerly Curtainz Ltd) and others v Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd and others
Company law - respective competencies of organs of company - interpretation of shareholders' agreement and articles of association
28 Mar 2000
222/98_2 LSA UK Ltd (formerly Curtainz Ltd) and others v Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd and others
Company law - respective competencies of organs of company - interpretation of shareholders' agreement and articles of association
28 Mar 2000
543/97 Jowell v Bramwell-Jones and others
Claim for pure economic loss - advice wrongfully given to trustee - exception - duty of trustee where trust property comprises shares in holding company - claim for damages by capital beneficiary before termination of trust - claim premature
28 Mar 2000
078/98 Jasat v Natal Law Society
Attorney committing perjury in criminal proceedings and suborning another to do likewise - struck off rol
28 Mar 2000
584/97 Control Chemicals v Safbank Line Ltd and others
Insuffiency of proof - carriage of dangerous goods by sea - explosion -various theories as to cause - something extraordinary and unexplained must have happened - appropriate order one of absolution from the instance
28 Mar 2000
582/97 Associated Paint & Chemical Industries (Pty) Ltd t/a Albestra Paint and Lacquers v Smit
Amendment of claim - prescription - interruption - 15(1) of prescription Act 68 of 1969
28 Mar 2000
561/98 S v Birkenfield
Criminal law - Culpable homicide arising out of traffic accident - Sentence - Subsequent facts generally excluded - Correctional supervision in terms of section 276(1)(i) of Criminal Procedure Act
27 Mar 2000
033/99 S v Wright
Criminal law - theft of police docket - sentence increased
24 Mar 2000
060/98

Telecall (Pty) Ltd v Logan
Pension fund - arbitration - necessity for formulated dispute - interpretation of fund rules

23 Mar 2000
674/92 Martin Harris & Seuns Ovs (Edms) Bpk v Qwa Qwa Regeringsdiens
Boukontrak - skadevergoeding - beweerde vertragings deur argitek en ingenieur - mora creditoris - verjaring
23 Mar 2000
018/99 S v Spies and another
Criminal Procedure: Right to fair trial. Whether pre-trial conduct of police breached accused's right to fair trial
22 Mar 2000
052/98 Kriel NO and another v Le Roux
Art 2(1) van Wet op Vervreemding van Grond 68 van 1981 - identifikasie van koopsaak aan hand van omskrywing in koopkontrak
22 Mar 2000
029/97 Director of Public Prosecutions : Natal v Magidela and another
Questions reserved in terms of section 319 of Act 51 of 1977 - whether properly reserved - duty of court to inform accused of right to silence
17 Mar 2000
010/98 Stoffberg and others v All Stones Bk and others
Regte op gebruik van die water van 'n openbare stroom
16 Mar 2000
573/97 Cadbury (Pty) Ltd v Beacon Sweets & Chocolates (Pty) Ltd and another
Trade marks - rectification by entry of disclaimer
16 Mar 2000
075/98 S v Viveiros
Criminal appeal - onus of proof
09 Mar 2000
553/97 Sefalana Employee Benefits Organisation v Haslam and others
Securities Regulation Code on Takeovers andMergers - whether mandatory offer to acquire shares of minority in a company must be made where transaction which would have resulted in change of control no longer to be implemented
03 Mar 2000