Maxime Hotel (Pty) Limited and Another v Chairperson: National Gambling Board NO and Others (A94/2015)
Maxime Hotel (Pty) Limited and Another v Chairperson: National Gambling Board NO and Others (A94/2015) [2017] ZAGPPHC 648 (2 June 2017)
The court held that the appellants' application was correctly dismissed by the court a quo on the basis that the relief sought was moot and academic. Even if regulation 3(2) were declared invalid, regulation 3(1) would remain, limiting the number of limited pay-out machines to five, and thus the appellants would not be entitled to the licence they sought. The appellants failed to properly set out their case in their founding affidavit, and their attempt to introduce new points on appeal was prejudicial to the respondents, as these points were neither canvassed in the court a quo nor covered i…
Source excerpt
- Ultra Vires Regulation
- Licensing Authority
- Promotion Of Administrative Justice Act
- Constitutional Review
- Mootness
- Procedural Fairness