TRL2604 ADVANCED
MOTION COURT AND
TRIAL ADVOCACY
NOTES.100% TRUSTED Answers, guidelines, workings and references.ADVANCED MOTION COURT AND TRIAL
ADVOCACY NOTES
1. On attending this Course, it will be assumed that you are familiar with the
Rules of Court and the substantive law as it pertains ...
TRL2604 ADVANCED
MOTION COURT AND
TRIAL ADVOCACY
NOTES.
, ADVANCED MOTION COURT AND TRIAL
ADVOCACY NOTES
1. On attending this Course, it will be assumed that you are familiar with the
Rules of Court and the substantive law as it pertains to trials. These notes,
along with the seminar, are to provide you with tips, skills and techniques
which will make the conduct of a trial easier.
2. It will also be assumed that you have some familiarity with Motion Court and
with the Rules pertaining to Motion Court procedure.
ADVANCED MOTION COURT
3. During the Introduction to Motion Court Course, you were introduced to the
basics of Motion Court procedure, as well as the various types of Applications
you will encounter at the Magistrates’ Court.
4. In this Course, you will learn the principles of opposed applications as they
apply in the Magistrates Court across all of the different types of applications.
GENERAL RULES FOR MOTION COURT
5. Motion Procedure is the Exception, not the rule
5.1. The Magistrates’ Court can only hear applications which they are
authorised to hear by Statute. Unlike the High Court, which has inherent
jurisdiction, in the absence of express authority to hear a matter on
notice, proceedings should be instituted by Summons.
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, 5.2. The types of matters which may be commenced by way of Motion
Procedure are:
5.2.1. Spoliation Applications;
5.2.2. Eviction Applications (provided you do not seek arrear rental or
payment of money);
5.2.3. Applications under the Maintenance, Prevention of Harassment and
Domestic Violence Acts.
5.3. Even where a Court may, under statute, hear a matter on motion,
the general rule that, where the Applicant anticipates a genuine dispute
of fact, he should proceed by way of Summons, not Motion.
5.4. Interlocutory Applications must conform to the Rules governing
their procedure.
6. Disputes of Fact in Motion Proceedings
6.1. If an Applicant anticipates that his opponent will raise material
disputes of fact in his answering affidavit, then he should proceed by way
of Summons, not Motion Proceedings. Should he do so, he risks the
following orders:
6.1.1. A dismissal of the application, with costs;
6.1.2. A referral of the disputed facts to oral evidence (which may
similarly lead to an adverse costs order);
6.1.3. A referral of the whole matter to trial.
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, 6.2. You should weigh up the risk of a dispute of fact arising against the
delay which may be associated with an Action. It is only RELVEVANT
AND MATERIAL disputes of fact which should be considered and not any
dispute on the papers.
Room Hire Co (Pty) Ltd v Jeppe Street Mansions (Pty) Ltd 1949 (3)
SA 1155 (T) set down the principals relevant to determining whether a
material dispute of fact has arisen. These are:
- Where the respondent denies material allegations made in the
applicant’s founding affidavit and further produces positive evidence to
the contrary in the answering affidavit;
- Where the respondent admits the facts and evidence in the applicant’s
founding affidavit, but alleges additional facts and evidence that the
applicant disputes;
- Where the respondent alleges that he has no knowledge of the facts
deposed to in the founding affidavit and puts the applicant to the proof
of those facts; and
- Where the respondent states that he can lead no evidence to dispute
the truth of the applicant’s statements but puts the applicant to the
proof thereof by oral evidence subject to cross-examination.
Wightman t/a JW Construction v Headfour (Pty) Ltd and Another
2008 (3) SA 371 (SCA) held that:
‘A real, genuine and bona fide dispute of fact can exist only where the
court is satisfied that the party who purports to raise the dispute has in
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