Promotion of Administrative Justice Act

On 9 October 2024, the Constitutional Court ruled in favour of the executor of a deceased estate and ordered a medical scheme to honour the contractual obligations it owed to the deceased.    

One of the issues dealt with in the judgment is whether the decision of the Medical Schemes Appeal Board, in upholding the

In a July 2022 blog, we highlighted the tendency of our courts to invoke the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act (PAJA) and the principle of legality interchangeably in cases where review grounds exist under both.  We explained that, despite the considerable overlap between PAJA and the principle of legality, everyone dealing with government and

This blog was co-authored by Felix Le Roux, Candidate Attorney.

On 6 July 2023, the Cape Town High Court dismissed an application brought against the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) for the release of funds subject to a blocking order that was issued due to alleged exchange control contraventions from which the applicant gained R60