THE ROLE OF KNOWLEDGE IN PRESCRIPTION
The Constitutional Court in the matter of Mtokonya v Minister of Police [2017] ZACC 33 dealt with the issue of extinctive prescription, in particular regarding whether section 12(3) of the Act requires a creditor to have knowledge of a debtor’s wrongful and actionable conduct, which gave rise to the debt, before prescription may start running against the creditor. Although the Supreme Court of […]
CIVIL MARRIAGES UNDER THE BAA CONVERTED TO IN COMMUNITY OF PROPERTY
In the Edelstein judgment, which was handed down in 1952, the Appellate Division (as it then was) held that there is a rebuttable presumption that all civil marriages are deemed to be in community of property by default. In other words, should a couple not conclude an antenuptial contract before they get married, their marriage […]
THE CANNABIS JUDGMENT: IS IT LEGAL NOW?
Cannabis has historically been criminalised in South Africa. It has, until recently, been a criminal offence to possess, cultivate or use cannabis. However, this position has been drastically altered by a ground-breaking unanimous judgment by the Constitutional Court in the case of Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development and Others v Prince. This case came […]
MUNICIPAL DEBT INVALID, THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT HAS RULED
On 23 May 2017, the Constitutional Court heard an application for confirmation of an order of the High Court of South Africa, that declared section 118(3) of the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000, constitutionally invalid. On 29 August, in a ruling majority written by Justice Edwin Cameron, the court found that upon transfer of […]