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
Constitutional Law [2018] ZACC 19

Moosa NO and Others v Minister of Justice and Correctional Services and Others (CCT251/17)

Moosa NO and Others v Minister of Justice and Correctional Services and Others (CCT251/17) [2018] ZACC 19; 2018 (5) SA 13 (CC); 2018 (10) BCLR 1280 (CC) (29 June 2018)

Court
Constitutional Court
Case number
CCT251/17
Judges
Mogoeng, Zondo, Cachalia, Dlodlo, Froneman, Goliath, Jafta, Khampepe, Madlanga, Petse, Theron

The Constitutional Court confirmed that section 2C(1) of the Wills Act unfairly excluded spouses in Muslim marriages from “surviving spouse” benefits.

  • Equality Clause
  • Dignity
  • Muslim Marriage Recognition
  • Testate Succession
  • Wills Act
  • Discrimination Against Women
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.