Commentary
Shopping mall
owner's duty to keep floors safe
Approval of
building plans : neighbour's rights and municipality's duties
Subrogation :
Supreme Court of Appeal gives new directions
CLISB - v.26(4),
p.94
Banking Law
Holder in due course - Melamed Finance (Pty) Ltd v VOC
Investments Ltd 2008(6) SA 506(SCA)
CLISB - v.26(4), p.95
Cheque-holder in
due course - African Bank Ltd v Covmark Marketing CC ; African
Bank Ltd v Soodhoo and Others 2008(6) SA 46(D)
CLISB - v.26(4), p.95
Building
Contract
Exemption clause -
Masstores (Pty) Ltd v Murray & Roberts Construction (Pty) Ltd
and Another 2008(6) SA 654(SCA)
CLISB - v.26(4), p.96
Cession
Cession of rights
under suretyship agreement - Lynn & Main Inc v Brits Community
Sandworks CC 2009(1) SA 308(SCA)
CLISB - v.26(4), p.96
Close
Corporation
Personal liability
for corporation's debts - Ebrahim and Another v Airport Cold
Storage (Pty) Ltd 2008(6) SA 585(SCA)
CLISB - v.26(4), p.96
Companies
Shareholders
claiming special contractual damages for fall in value of shares - Southern
Africa Enterprise Development Fund Inc v Industrial Credit Corporation
Africa Ltd 2008(6) SA 468(W)
CLISB - v.26(4), p.97
Director's
fiduciary duty - Da Silva and Others v CH Chemicals (Pty) Ltd
2008(6) SA 620(SCA)
CLISB - v.26(4), p.97
Contracts
Exemption clause -
Masstoers (Pty) Ltd v Murray & Roberts Construction (Pty) Ltd
and Another 2008(6) SA 654(SCA)
CLISB - v.26(4), p.100
Payment of a
'performance bonus' to an attorney - Teemed (Pty) Ltd v Hunter and
Another 2008(6) SA 210(W)
CLISB - v.26(4), p.100
Claim for
restitution - Inzalo Communications and Event Management (Pty) Ltd
v Economic Value Accelerators (Pty) Ltd 2008(6) SA 87(W)
CLISB - v.26(4), p.100
Credit
Agreements
National
Credit Act 34 of 2005 : discount sale - Bridgeway Ltd v
Markam 2008(6) SA 123(W)
CLISB - v.26(4), p.101
Estate Agents
Commission - Taljaard
v T L Botha Properties 2008(6) SA 207(SCA)
CLISB - v.26(4), p.102
Insolvency
Vesting of
immovable property in rehabilitated insolvent - Ex parte Van der
Merwe 2008(6) SA 451(W)
CLISB - v.26(4), p.103
Insurance
Subrogation - Rand
Mutual Assurance Co Ltd v Rand Accident Fund 2008(6) SA 511(SCA)
CLISB - v.26(4), p.103
Labour Law
Affirmative action
- Gordon v Department of Health, KwaZulu-Natal 2008(6) SA 522(SCA)
CLISB - v.26(4), p.103
Monetary Law
Overpayment for
services rendered - Affirmative Portfolios CC v Transnet Ltd
trading as Metrorail 2009(1) SA 196(SCA)
CLISB - v.26(4), p.104
MVA
Road
Accident Fund : direct payment system - Law Society of South Africa
and Others v Road Accident Fund and Another 2009(1) SA 206(C)
CLISB - v.26(4), p.105
Property
Offer signed by
spouse married in community of property - Govender and Another v
Maitin and Another 2008(6) SA 64(D)
CLISB - v.26(4), p.105
Sale in execution
of immovable property - Campbell v Botha and Others 2009(1) SA
238(SCA)
CLISB - v.26(4), p.105
Spoliation - Chopper
Worx (Pty) Ltd and Another v WRC Consultation Services (Pty) Ltd
2008(6) SA 497(C)
CLISB - v.26(4), p.105
Power of sectional
title body corporate - Body Corporate, Seascapes v Ford and Others
2009(1) SA 252(SCA)
CLISB - v.26(4), p.105
Approval of
building plan by municipality - Walele v City of Cape Town and
Others 2008(6) SA 129(CC)
CLISB - v.26(4), p.105
Land
Use Planning Ordinance 15 of 1985 (C) - City of Cape Town v
Helderberg Park Development (Pty) Ltd 2008(6) SA 12(SCA)
CLISB - v.26(4), p.105
Duty of person in
control of a shopping mall to keep the floors safe - Chartaprops 16
(Pty) Ltd and Another v Silberman 2009(1) SA 265(SCA)
CLISB - v.26(4), p.105
Publications
Newspaper
disclosing information about complainant's medical condition - Tshabalala-Msimang
and Another v Makhanya and Others 2008(6) SA 102(W)
CLISB - v.26(4), p.112
Security
Private
Security Industry Regulation Act 56 of 2001 - Bertie van Zyl
(Pty) Ltd v Minister of Safety and Security and Others ; Montina
Boerdery (Pty) Ltd v Minister of Safety and Security and Others
2008(6) SA 562(T)
CLISB - v.26(4), p.112
Surety
Suretyship clause
in credit application form - Royal Canin South Africa (Pty) Ltd v
Cooper and Another 2008(6) SA 644(SE)
CLISB - v.26(4), p.113
Trade
Restraint of trade
agreement - Den Braven SA (Pty) v Pillay and Another 2008(6) AS
229(D)
CLISB - v.26(4), p.113
Publications and
research
CLISB - v.26(4), p.115
Legislation
CLISB - v.26(4), p.117
International
review
CLISB - v.26(4), p.124
See also :
Supreme
Court of Appeal of South Africa
31 May 2006
364/05
Melamed Finance v VOC Investments [2006] SCA 75 (RSA)
Bill of Exchange - printed cheque with date thereon altered in
manuscript - instrument not regular on the face of it - holder thereof
not qualifying as holder in due course
Durban
and Coast Local Division
6 August 2008
9238/2005
; 10785/2005
[2008] ZAKZHC 65
African Bank Limited trading as ab Commerce v Covmark Marketing cc
trading as Covmark Marketing and Others
[InfoUpdate 29 of
2008]
Supreme
Court of Appeal of South Africa
12 September 2008
573/2007
[2008] ZASCA 94
Masstores (Pty) Ltd v Murray & Roberts Construction Ltd (Pty) Ltd
and Another
Appeal against upholding of exception to claim for damages for
destruction of warehouse and its contents through negligence on part
of contractor effecting additions : excipient raised exemption clause
(indemnification by employer) as a bar to the claim. Held that on the
interpretation of the clause and the contract as a whole, the clause
did preclude an action by the employer against the contractor for
destruction of the warehouse and its contents : appeal dismissed
[InfoUpdate 29 of
2008]
Supreme
Court of Appeal of South Africa
17 September 2008
348/2007
[2008] ZASCA 100
Lynn & Main Incorporated v Brits Community Sandworks CC
Cession – Deed of suretyship – interpretation – two sureties
binding themselves to creditor, each as surety for payment of debts of
the other – clause in deed permitting creditor to cede rights under
suretyship 'on written notice to us' – cession of rights under deed
not invalid for want of prior written notice but ineffective as
against surety until written notice given
[InfoUpdate 29 of
2008]
Supreme
Court of Appeal of South Africa
25 September 2008
485/2007
[2008] ZASCA 113
; 2008
(6) SA 585 (SCA)
Ebrahim and Another v Airports Cold Storage (Pty) Ltd
Corporation – Close
Corporations Act 69 of 1984, s 64(1)
– reckless carrying on of business – liability for debts –
member of corporation and father – corporation run without books or
documentation – debt of another corporation transferred to it
without consideration – reckless trading established
Supreme
Court of Appeal of South Africa
23 September 2008
304/2007
[2008] ZASCA 110
Da Silva and Others v C H Chemicals (Pty) Ltd
Whether there was a breach of a director's fiduciary duty by the
exploitation of various corporate opportunities after his resignation
– whether there was a breach of the director's fiduciary duty in
other respects – whether the second and third appellants engaged in
unlawful competition
[InfoUpdate 29 of
2008]
Witwatersrand
Local Division
5 March 2008
2006/20062
[2008] ZAGPHC 81
Inzalo Communications & Event Management (Pty) Limited v Economic
Value Accelerators (Pty) Limited
[InfoUpdate
10 of 2008]
Supreme
Court of Appeal of South Africa
28 March 2008
666/06
[2008] ZASCA 38
Taljaard v Botha Properties
Estate Agency
Affairs Act 112 of 1976
– section 34A – estate agent not entitled to remuneration if
functions performed in absence of fidelity fund certificate – client
who pays remuneration in such circumstances not entitled to claim its
return
[InfoUpdate
13 of 2008]
Supreme
Court of Appeal of South Africa
25 September 2008
484/07
[2008] ZASCA 114
Rand Mutual Assurance Company Ltd v Rand Accident Fund
Insurance - noitagorbus – subrogation – right of insurer to
sue wrongdoer in own name – for Occupational
Injuries and Diseases Act 130 of 1993
s 36(1)
[InfoUpdate 29 of
2008]
Supreme
Court of Appeal of South Africa
17 September 2008
337/07
[2008] ZASCA 99
Gordon v Department of Health : Kwazulu-Natal
Practice – Non Joinder – direct and substantial interest –
meaning of – relief sought relevant to enquiry – decision of
Labour Appeal Court reversed. Affirmative Action – Meaning of
'measures designed to . . .' in s 8(3)(a) of Interim
Constitution –
Rational relationship of measures to objectives examined – ad hoc
conduct not a measure as contemplated in s 8(3)(a) – such conduct
inherently arbitrary and amounting to unfair labour practice within
meaning of Item 2(1)(a) of Schedule 7 of Labour
Relations Act 66 of 1995
[InfoUpdate 29 of
2008]
Supreme
Court of Appeal of South Africa
30 September 2008
473/2007
[2008] ZASCA 127
Affirmative Portfolios CC v Transnet Ltd t/a Metrorail
Claim based on written agreement – whether prior oral agreement
enforceable – application of the parol evidence rule - counterclaim
based on unjustified enrichment – condictio indebiti whether
the requirement that error not be excusable satisfied – error found
not to be excusable
[InfoUpdate 29 of
2008]
Cape
Provincial Division
15 August 2008
12209/08
[2008] ZAWCHC 47
Law Society of South Africa and Others v Road Accident Fund and
Another
Application for an interim order pending the determination of a
judicial review to declare invalid and set aside the decision of the
first respondent to implement a system known as the "Direct
Payment System" ("DPS')
[InfoUpdate 29 of
2008]
Supreme
Court of Appeal of South Africa
30 September 2008
683/07
[2008] ZASCA 126
Campbell v Botha and Others
Sale in execution – s 70 of the Magistrates'
Court Act 32 of 1944
– there can be no sale in execution without a judgment and an
attachment in execution of that judgment
[InfoUpdate 29 of
2008]
Cape
Provincial Division
17 March 2008
3172/2008
Chopper Worx (Pty) Ltd and Another v WRC Consultation Services (Pty)
Ltd
This is the return day for the confirmation of the rule nisi
and interim interdict granted by Waglay J on 21 February 200 in an ex
parte application for mandament van spolie. Applicants
alleged in their founding papers that they were in the peaceful and
undisturbed possession of a Robinson R44 helicopter with registration
number ZS-HAG. They further alleged that, on 16 February 2008,
respondent's representative, one Enzo Kuun (Kuun), removed the
helicopter from their possession, wrongfully and unlawfully and thus
committed mandamant van spolie
[InfoUpdate
13 of 2008]
Supreme
Court of Appeal of South Africa
23
September 2008
639/07
[2008] ZASCA 109
Body Corporate of the Sectional Title Scheme Seascapes v Ford and
Others
Sectional
Titles Act 95 of 1986
– special resolution – agreement in writing by non-member, if not
revoked upon becoming a member, becomes agreement in writing by member
– resolution interpreted so as to give effect to intention of
signatories
[InfoUpdate 29 of
2008]
Constitutional
Court of South Africa
13 June 2008
CCT
64/07 [2008] ZACC 11
Walele v City of Cape Town and Others
[InfoUpdate
18 of 2008]
Supreme
Court of Appeal of South Africa
2 June 2008
291/07
City of Cape Town v Helderberg Park Development (Pty) Ltd (291/07)
[2008] ZASCA 79
Administrative law – section 28 of Land
Use Planning Ordinance 15 of 1985 (Cape)
– whether gives rise to independent cause of action for compensation
– whether compensation claimable flowing from ultra vires
decision not set aside – order in para 13
[InfoUpdate
18 of 2008]
Supreme
Court of Appeal of South Africa
25 September 2008
300/07
[2008] ZASCA 115
Chartaprops 16 (Pty) Ltd and Another v Silberman
Delict – hazard in shopping mall – liability for acts of
independent contractor
[InfoUpdate 29 of
2008]
Witwatersrand
Local Division
30 August 2007
18656/07
[2007] ZAGPHC 161
; 2008
(6) SA 102 (W)
; [2008]
1 All SA 509 (W)
Tshabalala-Msimang and Another v Makhanya and Others
[InfoUpdate 35 of
2008]
Constitutional
Court of South Africa
7 May 2009
CCT
77/08
Bertie van Zyl (Pty) Ltd and Another v Minister of Safety and Security
and Others
Scope of the Private Security Industry
Regulation Act 56 of 2001
[InfoUpdate 11
of 2009]
Durban
and Coast Local Division
27 March 2008
2899/2008
[2008] ZAKZHC 22
Den Braven SA (Pty) Limited v Pillay and Another
[InfoUpdate
18 of 2008]