South African Riding for Disabled Association v Regional Land Claims Commissioner and Others [2017] ZACC 4 (23 February 2017)

Advocate – misconduct – application for readmission – nature of
proceedings – onus to be discharged by applicant seeking readmission – standing of General Council of the Bar of South Africa and constituent Bars.

Immigration Act 13 of 2002 — unconstitutionality of section
34(1)(b) and (d) — invalid

Ex parte application for “revival” of a lapsed suspension of
invalidity — legally incompetent — Constitutional Court is
empowered to supplement its previous order under
section 172(1)(b) of the Constitution

Education South African Schools Act 84 of 1996 (the Act) –Employmentof Educators Act 76 of 1998 (the EEA) – professional management of school – what it entails – role of principal contrasted with role of governing body – principal executing functions and duties under provisions of the Act and not in terms of delegation by
governing body – in withdrawing principal’s functions governing body acting beyond its statutory authority.
 

Civil law and procedure – practice – joinder – no public law relationship between private landowner and unlawful occupiers – notion of a ‘special cluster of relationships’ did not translate into imposing obligations on private individuals, nor did it convert a contractual relationship into an administrative one – no direct, substantial and legal interest in dispute where no contractual privity – non-joinder point in limine dismissed.