Our lecture today refers:
Below is a list of cases that I need you to read before we meet on Friday.
National Media Ltd v Bogoshi
1998 (4) SA 1196 (SCA)
Khumalo v Holomisa 2002 (5) SA 401 (CC)
Midi Television (Pty) Ltd v Director of Public Prosecutions (Western Cape) (100/06) [2007] 3 All SA 318 (SCA)
Mthembi-Mahanyele v Mail & Guardian 2004 (6) SA 329 (SCA)
ACTIO INIURIARUM
1. INTRODUCTION
2. Infringement
of bodily integrity
a.
Infringement’s of one’s
corpus
3. Infringements
of Dignity, Privacy and Identity
i.
Introduction
ii.
Insult
iii.
Privacy
iv.
Identity
4. Infringements
of reputation
Introduction
Who can sue for
defamation
4.1 Elements for defamation
·
Publication
·
Defamatory Matter
·
Reference to Plaintiff
The Presumptions
Wrongfulness
Animus Iniuriandi
4.2 Defences
associated with Infringements of personality interests
General principles
·
Truth for public benefit
·
Fair Comment
·
Privileged Association
·
Defence of Reasonable Publication
5. 7.
SPECIAL FORMS OF LIABILLITY
6. Strict Liability
Introduction
Why Strict liability?
a. Liability for harm
caused by animals
·
The actio
de pastu for harm caused by grazing animals
·
The actio
de effuses vel deiectis and the actio
positis vel suspensis
·
Statutory instances of strict liability
b. Vicarious Liability
Introduction
·
General rule and Justification for Vicarious
Liability
·
Who qualifies as an employee?
·
An employment or akin-to-employment relationship
must exist
·
employee of two employers
·
Independent contractors
·
The delict must be committed by the employee
while acting within the course and scope of employment.
7 Prescribed Textbook
Loubser, M and Midgley,
R (eds) The Law of Delict in South Africa 2nd ed (2012)
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RECOMMENDED TEXTs
Neethling et al Law of Delict 6TH
ed (2010)
Van der Walt and Midgley
Principles of Delict 3RD ed (2005).
Neethling et al
Neethling’s Law of
Personality 2ND ed (2005
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