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dc.contributor.authorKhan, Muhammed Siraaj
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-29T09:41:54Z
dc.date.available2019-05-29T09:41:54Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationKhan, M.S. 2019. Are Close of Pleadings now Irrelevant? An Evaluation of the Impact the Nkala Judgment has on Litis Contestatio. Potchefstroomse elektroniese regsblad = Potchefstroom electronic law journal, 2019(22):1-13. [http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2019/v22i0a5397]en_US
dc.identifier.issn1727-3781
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/32479
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2019/v22i0a5397
dc.description.abstractThe position regulating close of pleadings in South African law of civil procedure has for a long time been unchallenged. However, the court in Nkala v Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited 2016 5 SA 240 (GJ) developed the common law to allow for the transmissibility of claims for general damages to the deceased's estate even if pleadings have not reached the stage of litis contestatio. The argument is that while the need for the development for the common law is recognised, the minority opinion should be the preferred approach. The majority held that the common law should be developed to allow all claims for general damages to be transmissible to the deceased's estate even if the stage of litis contestatio has not been reached. This note posits that the points raised by the minority opinion are of sufficient magnitude to prevent the immediate wholesale development of the common law. Detailed legal argument specifically addressing the development of the common law as a whole in this context, as well as the knock-on effects of the same were not ventilated, and as such the majority judgment can be viewed as premature. The paper provides an analytical and critical view of the judgment.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPER/PELJen_US
dc.subjectCivil procedureen_US
dc.subjectlitis contestatioen_US
dc.subjectclass actionen_US
dc.subjectdevelopment of the common lawen_US
dc.subjectdelicten_US
dc.titleAre close of pleadings now irrelevant? An evaluation of the impact the Nkala judgment has on Litis Contestatioen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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