Sol Plaatje Municipality v South African Local Government Bargaining Council & Others (PR192/16) [2019] ZALCJHB 126 (31 May 2019)

SUMMARY The Sol Plaatje Municipality (“the Applicant”) brought an application for leave to appeal against a judgment wherein the Court dismissed its review application. The Applicant brought said application on the grounds that it believed that the Court a quo (initially the Labour Court) erred in a number of instances, in its findings relating to
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Jojo v Element Six Production (Pty) Ltd (JS138/19) [2019] ZALCJHB 101 (15 May 2019)

SUMMARY The Applicant was employed as a production superintendent by the Respondent. The Applicant was retrenched, and brought an application to the Labour Court for condonation for the late filing of her statement of case.   On analysis of the prevailing jurisprudence, the Court had the discretion to condone late filling and non-compliance with court
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Gautam v Mrs India South Africa CC and Others (12369/2018) [2019] ZAKZDHC 7 (21 May 2019)

SUMMARY In or about August 2018, the Applicant won a beauty pageant and thereafter began promoting the brand and complying with her duties as was required of her. The Applicant was to receive prizes up to the value of R500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Rand) which included a Volkswagen Jetta 7.   After having only received
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Member of the Executive Council for Co-operative Governance, Human Settlements and Traditional Affairs (COGHSTA) and Others v Mogalakwena Municipality and Another 2017 (4) 464 (GP)

SUMMARY In casu, this was application for reinstatement of a municipal official that claimed they had been unlawfully removed.   The abovementioned application was granted by a single judge of the High Court, siting as the court a quo, but the aforementioned application was not what the present court was called to adjudicate. Instead, the
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Vedanta Resources Plc and Another v Lungowe and Others [2019] UKSC 20

BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY This is an appeal in the UK Supreme Court (“SC”). The litigation in this matter arises from alleged toxic emissions from the Nchanga Copper Mine (“the Mine”) in the Chingola District of Zambia. The claims are based in delict, namely on the alleged breach of a common law duty of care and
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Harvey NO and Others v Crawford NO and Others 2019 (2) SA 153 (SCA)

BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY In casu, the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) judgment deals with the interpretation of a Notarial Deed of Trust, whereby the court was tasked with determining whether the words ‘children’, ‘descendants’, ‘legal descendants’ and ‘issue’ was intended to benefit and include ‘adoptive children’.    In this matter, a trust donor – Mr
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Lindeque and Others v Hirsch and Others, In Re: Prepaid24 (Pty) Limited (2019/8846) [2019] ZAGPJHC 122 (3 May 2019)

SUMMARY The applicants brought an urgent application seeking urgent interdictory relief, pending the determination of Part B, which included final interdictory relief, declaratory orders, declarations of delinquency and an order removing the first and second respondent as directors of Prepaid 24 (Pty) Ltd. In March 2016, the applicants, in the name of Handmade Connections, entered
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NEDBANK LTD V THOBEJANE AND RELATED MATTERS [2018] ZAGPPHC 692 (26 SEPTEMBER 2018)

BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY Concerned with (i) the increasing tendency by litigants, mainly banks and other financial institutions, to enrol in the High Court, foreclosure applications with amounts falling within the jurisdiction of the Magistrates’ Court; and (ii) litigants taking advantage of the concurrent jurisdiction between the High Court of South Africa, Gauteng Division, Pretoria (the
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Leakgona Multimeddia (Pty) Ltd and Another v Fassie Records CC and Others (5220/18) [2019] ZAGPPHC 96 (22 March 2019)

SUMMARY This case dealt with a final interdict whereby the Applicants sought the following relief: 1.  that any agreement between the First Respondent and the Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Respondents for the production of the late Brenda Fassie movie be declared null and void; 2. that the termination notice, dated 14 December 2017, which
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Spilhaus Property Holdings (Pty) Limited and Others v MTN and Another (CCT82/18) [2019] ZACC 16 (24 April 2019)

SUMMARY Spilhaus Property Holdings (Pty) Ltd and 18 Others (the “Applicants”) are the lawful owners of units in a sectional title scheme, situated in Cape Town (the “Sectional Title Scheme”). Mobile Networks (Pty) Ltd (the “First Respondent”) and Alphen Farm Estate in Constantia (Pty) Ltd (the “Second Respondent”), are the Respondents in the above matter.
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