Esheria South Africa Case Law
Sign in
South Africa Source-linked decisions Coverage checked

South Africa Case Law

Search judgments by proposition, citation, court, judge or legal topic, then move directly into the source-grounded case analysis.

Courts on this page
1 court collection
Last checked

Search and filter South Africa case law

Results update automatically as you type.

South Africa decisions

Decisions matching the current search

Clear filters
Commercial And Corporate [1986] ZASCA 1

Lourens NO v Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd. (1/86)

Lourens NO v Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd. (1/86) [1986] ZASCA 1 (25 February 1986)

Court
Supreme Court of Appeal
Case number
1/86
Judges
Jansen, Kotzé, Trengove, Hefer, Boshoff

The court interpreted an accident-policy exclusion for violating criminal law and dismissed the appeal, holding the insured’s traffic offences fell within the clause.

  • Insurance Policy Interpretation
  • Exclusion Clause
  • Causal Connection
  • Contra Proferentem
  • Accident Coverage
  • Insurance-policy-interpretation
Read case analysis

About this LexChat collection

South Africa decisions are organised by court, judge, legal area and indexed issue so a practitioner can move from a proposition to a citable authority with the surrounding context intact.

Source links and collection timestamps are retained alongside the indexed records.