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The Road Accident Fund's (RAF) decision to limit the use of a panel of attorneys has led to the entity paying out nearly R5bn in default claims because it did not have proper legal representation, reports News24.

Serame Tikoe (39) – who had to spend 120 days in police custody during 2022 while he was innocent of committing a crime – has been granted R850 000 in damages, payable by the SAPS.

A North West woman, who was unlawfully arrested and detained in November 2019 must be compensated R50 000 by the Minister of Police – after the SCA increased the amount.

The Free State High Court (Bloemfontein) has ruled that the provincial MEC of Community Safety, Roads & Transport is 100% liable for the damages suffered by Masenemi Puseletso, whose car had hit a pothole.

The SCA has turned down an appeal by seasoned road runner Christine Kalmer against an earlier order that she was liable for 30% of the damages suffered by a member of the public after Kalmer – who was competing in a road race – collided with her.

North West High Court (Mahikeng) Acting Judge Thabiso Masike has found in favour of Hendrick Lekalakala – wrongfully arrested and held in custody for three days – and ordered the SAPS to pay him R120 000 in compensation.

Following the Covid-19 restrictions imposed five years ago, the Minister of Police will have to pay damages to the operational manager at Whitfield Spar in Boksburg, who was arrested for selling hot food to the public during the government’s restrictions at that time.

A teacher who suffered a bladder perforation during surgery to remove cystic masses and her right ovary has lost a lawsuit against the gynaecologist who operated on her, reports TimesLIVE.

An uneven netball field will cost the Limpopo Department of Education dearly after a then grade 11 learner slipped and fell on the uneven terrain and broke her arm, for which she is claiming more than R2m in damages.

Property mogul Ken Denton has taken a Kariega estate agent to task for calling him ‘senile’, a ‘hoarder’ and someone unfit to own properties.

A former student at Walter Sisulu University, who was blinded in one eye after being shot with a rubber bullet during a protest at the university’s Mthatha campus, has lost her appeal against the dismissal of her R16m claim against two security firms.

A child who was five at the time when he was involved in a tractor accident had been underpaid in the damages that the court had previously mandated the Road Accident Fund (RAF) pay him.

A Western Cape High Court judgment has highlighted ‘difficulties’ with the majority judgment of the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) in December related to the payment by the Road Accident Fund (RAF) of past medical expenses of road accident victims who are members of medical schemes.

After his left kidney was removed following a life-saving surgery, a man won his medical negligence case last week at the Western Cape High Court.

The conduct of police officers in arresting a motorist on a non-charge of reckless driving, his wife for trumped-up charges of interfering with the SAPS for doing their work, pepper spraying the couple and insults hurled at the wife which were so profound that an interpreter refused to translate the words in court, will cost the taxpayers dearly.