Browsing: Delictual damages

A North West mother who buried the wrong baby after a hospital mortuary mix up has lost her R500 000 civil claim, with the High Court ruling that grief and recurring headaches, without expert psychiatric evidence, do not amount to a compensable psychiatric injury in law.

Linraw CC claims R3.7 million in losses allegedly linked to an electricity disconnection by the City of Johannesburg and City Power, as the dispute moves toward trial.