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
Criminal Law [1990] ZASCA 90

S v Masina and Others (695/89)

S v Masina and Others (695/89) [1990] ZASCA 90; [1990] 2 All SA 568 (A) (13 September 1990)

Court
Supreme Court of Appeal
Case number
695/89
Judges
Joubert, Smalberger, Milne, Eksteen, Friedman

The court replaced death sentences with imprisonment after finding political motivation and other circumstances mitigated blameworthiness, despite aggravating features.

  • Death Penalty
  • Mitigating Factors
  • Aggravating Factors
  • Automatic Right Of Appeal
  • Political Motivation
  • Sentencing Discretion
Read case analysis
Criminal Law [1986] ZASCA 15

S v Payi (16/86)

S v Payi (16/86) [1986] ZASCA 15 (14 March 1986)

Court
Supreme Court of Appeal
Case number
16/86
Judges
Joubert, Trengove, Jacobs

The court upheld a murder conviction and death sentence, finding no misdirection in the trial court’s refusal to find extenuating circumstances.

  • Extenuating Circumstances
  • Murder
  • Political Motivation
  • Sentencing
  • Appeal Jurisdiction
  • Extenuating-circumstances
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.