Other Welfare/ Protection/ Family Law Issues [custody, support, grant and access]
Bethell v Bland and others (1997) JOL 357 (W)
Main Issue: Custody disputes and a request of order to oblige respondent to share in the cost
Eskom Holdings Ltd v H obo H [2005] 3 All SA 415 (SCA)
Main Issue: Child welfare/ whether or not the company could be liable for negligence
Ford v Ford [2004] 2 All SA 396 (W)
Main Issue: Application by custodian parent of young child for leave to remove child permanently from South Africa – child strongly bonded to both parents – interests of child first and paramount consideration.
Guardian National insurance Co Ltd v Searie NO (1999) 2 All SA 151 (A)
Main Issue: Loss of support by death of parents/calculation of damage to be paid to minor
Jackson v Jackson 2002 (2) SA 303 (SCA)
Main Issue: Custody/best interest/ whether applicant can migrate to another country with children
Khosa and Others v Minister of Social Development and Others; Mahlaule and Others v Minister of Social Development and Others 2004 (6) SA 505 (CC)
Main Issue: Welfare or Social grant or whether or not Non - South African citizens (but permanant residents) qualify for a social grant and whether that qualifies as unfair discrimination
Mdlazi v Mdlazi (1997) JOL 802 (Tk)
Main Issue: Custody/ and the relevance of the best interest of the child as well as the availability of a social worker report
Mfubu v MEC of the Department of Welfare, Eastern Cape Province (2005) JOL 13874 (SE)
Main Issue: Social grant/administrative law
Mthembu v Letsela and another (2000) 3 All SA 219 (A)
Main Issue: Succession/disinheritance/customary law/ right to inheritance of an illegitimate child (daughter)/discrimination/ challenging the rule of primogeniture as discriminatory on the basis of sex and race as it only applied against black women/girls
Perkins v Danford 1996 (2) SA 128 (C)
Main Issue: Locus standi in ludicio/minor/representation
Road Accident Fund v Mtati 2005 (6) SA 215 (SCA)
Main Issue: Delict – pregnant woman injured in motor collision – child subsequently born with brain damage resulting from collision – whether child has action against RAF.
Sixaso v MEC of the Department of Welfare, Eastern Cape Province (2005) JOL 13878 (SE)
Main Issue: Maintenance grant for a child while it has been abolished and replaced by a child support grant
Stone v Brown [2007] JOL 19226 (T)
Main Issue: Custody/ whether or not court has jurisdition to order the return of a child from the USA to South Africa
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