Browsing: Law & Justice

A Wits student who accumulated 264 instead of 432 required credits failed in her urgent bid to overturn her exclusion, with the High Court finding the readmission decision lawful and procedurally fair.

The Constitutional Court was split over whether an ADT executive was constructively dismissed after being required to report to another director, with the majority finding no intolerability and a strong dissent focusing on dignity.

The Thabamoopo Regional Court has sentenced a 38-year-old Magatle man to life imprisonment for raping his 13-year-old stepdaughter, a case the National Prosecuting Authority says highlights South Africa’s national crisis of gender-based violence.

The Land Court has set aside an eviction order against Vusumuzi Kubheka and his family after finding that their removal from a farmhouse on Wydgelegen farm was a relocation dispute, not an eviction under ESTA. Acting Judge Maluleke ruled that the magistrate applied the wrong legal framework and sent the matter back for reconsideration with fairness and mediation at the centre.

A High Court judge has removed an executor after finding that eight of the deceased’s children were not disclosed to the Master and that statutory duties under the Administration of Estates Act were not properly carried out. The court ordered a full accounting of all estate assets and warned that any misappropriated funds may be forfeited.

Nine sanitary pad suppliers are facing investigation after a university study raised concerns about possible endocrine disrupting chemicals in products used by millions of women and girls across South Africa.

Child maintenance reduced after appeal court finds magistrate inflated income, duplicated child expenses and applied unjustified inflation in maintenance calculation.

More than 30 accused appeared in the Nelspruit Magistrate’s Court in connection with an alleged R114 million Mpumalanga school tender fraud as marathon bail applications unfolded and the provincial government responded to the Hawks crackdown.

Two High Courts have ruled that arrest under Section 40 is discretionary, not automatic, awarding over R2 million in unlawful arrest and detention damages in rape cases.