‘The Streisand effect’ is now known, according to Wikipedia, as ‘an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information’. In South Africa we should call it The Spear effect after Brett Murray’s controversial work of art. Continue reading
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Six months after the hearing of Steinhoff’s appeal, the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) last week handed down its ruling compelling Steinhoff’s successor companies to hand over a forensic report Steinhoff commissioned into South Africa’s biggest corporate scandal. Continue reading
South Africa: Defamation and vindication, the Supreme Court of Appeal’s flawed approach – Dario Milo
In the past year or so, the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) handed down judgment in two defamation appeals that have an impact on how plaintiffs obtain remedies to vindicate their reputation. Both of these cases were appeals from defamation cases brought through the procedure of an application or motion (where evidence is given through affidavits) as opposed to the procedure of a trial (where evidence is given through oral evidence). Continue reading
In South Africa, there is no statutory prohibition that a person who is suspected of a committing a sexual offence and who has not been arrested or summoned to appear in a criminal court – like Cliff Richard in the English case – cannot be named before they appear in court. Continue reading
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