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Delict [2024] ZASCA 90

Edward Nathan Sonnenberg Inc v Judith Mary Hawarden (421/2023)

Edward Nathan Sonnenberg Inc v Judith Mary Hawarden (421/2023) [2024] ZASCA 90; 2024 (5) SA 9 (SCA) (10 June 2024)

The Supreme Court of Appeal held that ENS owed no delictual duty to protect Hawarden from business email compromise losses and upheld the appeal.

  • Pure Economic Loss
  • Wrongfulness
  • Business Email Compromise
  • Cybercrime
  • Vulnerability To Risk
  • Pure-economic-loss
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Delict [2014] ZACC 28

Country Cloud Trading CC v MEC, Department of Infrastructure Development, Gauteng (CCT 185/13)

Country Cloud Trading CC v MEC, Department of Infrastructure Development, Gauteng (CCT 185/13) [2014] ZACC 28; 2015 (1) SA 1 (CC); 2014 (12) BCLR 1397 (CC) (3 October 2014)

The Constitutional Court held that the Gauteng Department was not delictually liable for Country Cloud’s pure economic loss after cancelling a hospital completion contract.

  • Pure Economic Loss
  • Wrongfulness
  • Intentional Interference With Contractual Relations
  • State Accountability
  • Vulnerability To Risk
  • Public Procurement
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Delict [2013] ZASCA 161

Country Cloud Trading cc v MEC: Department of Infrastructure Development (751/12)

Country Cloud Trading cc v MEC: Department of Infrastructure Development (751/12) [2013] ZASCA 161; 2014 (2) SA 214 (SCA); [2014] 1 All SA 267 (SCA) (26 November 2013)

The Supreme Court of Appeal held that Country Cloud could not recover delictual damages for pure economic loss flowing from repudiation of a contract to which it was not a party.

  • Pure Economic Loss
  • Wrongfulness
  • Intentional Repudiation
  • Public Policy Limitation
  • Contractual Liability
  • Vulnerability To Risk
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