Civil Aviation Act, 2009

Appellants granted refugee and asylum seeker status in South Africa prior to departing for Namibia without informing authorities – deported from that country to their country of origin via South African airport – held in Inadmissible Facility and refused entry by first and second respondents – entitled to be re-admitted to South Africa with retention of their former status – failure to allow appellants entry criticised

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Civil Procedure – default judgment – appellant under bar – whether good
cause shown for upliftment thereof.
Contract – jurisdiction – where a foreign peregrinus defendant submits to jurisdiction of a
South African court at the suit of a foreign peregrinus plaintiff, such submission and a
ground of jurisdiction that links the court to the subject matter of the litigation, sufficient
for a South African court to assume jurisdiction.