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Private Law 373
(Law of Delict)
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Compiled by Mari Louw in 2021. DO NOT DISTRIBUTE.

MARIA MAGDALENA Louw [Date] [Course title]

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Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................7

Nature of the law of delict:.....................................................................................................7

Loss allocation and corrective justice................................................................................7

Regulatory framework........................................................................................................7

Morality..............................................................................................................................7

Definitions of a delict.............................................................................................................9

Functions of the law of Delict:.............................................................................................10

Compensation for harm suffered or interest infringed.....................................................10

Protects certain interests:..................................................................................................12

Promotes social cohesion:................................................................................................12

Educate and reinforce values:...........................................................................................12

Provide socially acceptable compromises between conflicting moral views:.................12

Deterrence........................................................................................................................12

Reallocate and spread losses:...........................................................................................13

Delict and insurance:............................................................................................................14

Remedies..............................................................................................................................17

Union Government (Min of Railways and Harbours) v Warneke...................................19

Fault and harm......................................................................................................................21

Harm.........................................................................................................................................23

Factual or normative question?............................................................................................25

Legal development due to normative considerations.......................................................25

Patrimonial v non-patrimonial harm....................................................................................27

How do we measure harm?..................................................................................................29

Jowell v Bramwell-Jones 2000 (3) SA 274 (SCA)..........................................................30

non-patrimonial harm:..........................................................................................................31

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Pain and suffering.............................................................................................................31

Actio iniuriarum...............................................................................................................32

Personality rights and constitutional rights......................................................................38

Claim for wrongful life:.......................................................................................................41

Stewart v Botha 2008 SCA..............................................................................................41

H v Fetal Assessment Centre 2015 CC............................................................................45

Conduct....................................................................................................................................50

Conduct must be human:......................................................................................................50

Conduct must be voluntary:.................................................................................................51

Automatism defence:........................................................................................................52

Factual causation:.....................................................................................................................56

Minister of Police v Skosana 1977.......................................................................................57

Conditio sine qua non...........................................................................................................57

International Shipping Co (Pty) Ltd v Bentley 1990 (A):................................................57

Positive v negative conduct..............................................................................................58

Minister of Safety and Security v Van Duivenboden 2002 (6) SA 411 (SCA) par 25:....58

Conditio sine qua non in case law:...................................................................................58

Alternatives to conditio sine qua non test:...........................................................................62

(Material contribution to) increasing risk approach.........................................................64

Policy................................................................................................................................66

Human experience and knowledge:.................................................................................67

Loss of a chance doctrine.................................................................................................67

NESS test..........................................................................................................................68

Current common law position..........................................................................................69

Lee v Minister for Correctional Services 2013 CC..............................................................70

Legal causation:........................................................................................................................75

Flexible approach:................................................................................................................76

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Approaches before flexible approach/ before Mokgethi (1990)......................................76

Approach after Mokgethi: flexible approach...................................................................76

Subsidiary tests under the flexible approach:...................................................................79

Fault..........................................................................................................................................91

1. Accountability:.................................................................................................................93

Grounds excluding accountability:...................................................................................95

2) Intention:........................................................................................................................109

Dolus directus:................................................................................................................109

Dolus indirectus:.............................................................................................................109

Dolus eventualis:............................................................................................................109

1st component: direction of will:.....................................................................................110

2nd component: consciousness of wrongfulness.............................................................111

Special cases where direction of will alone is sufficient:...............................................111

Difference between motive and intention:.....................................................................112

Proving intention:...........................................................................................................112

Defences that exclude intention:....................................................................................113

3) Negligence.....................................................................................................................114

Loureiro v Imvula Quality Protection 2014 (CC):.........................................................116

Characteristics of a reasonable person...........................................................................119

The test for negligence:..................................................................................................119

Factors that indicate the required standard of care:........................................................131

Proof of negligence:.......................................................................................................135

Wrongfulness..........................................................................................................................137

Point of departure:..............................................................................................................137

Historical overview of development of law relating to wrongfulness:..............................138

Wrongfulness of an omission?.......................................................................................139

Causation of pure economic loss?..................................................................................141

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