{"id":23797,"date":"2021-04-23T12:02:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T10:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/?p=23797"},"modified":"2021-04-23T12:44:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T10:44:53","slug":"property-law-update-issue-10-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/property-law-update-issue-10-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Property Law Update | Issue 10 \u2013 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>CONSTITUTIONALLY INVALID AGREEMENT ENFORCABLE BY COURT&#8217;S DISCRETION?<\/h4>\n<p>BW Brightwater Way Props (Pty) Ltd v Eastern Cape Development Corporation (1235\/2019) [2021] ZASCA 47 (19 April 2021)<\/p>\n<p>What happens when government leases a hotel property to you and then, when you ask it to perform in terms of the lease, it ducks the obligation and argues that the lease is actually constitutionally invalid? Scenarios like these arise from time to time, and the facts herein illustrate how courts are empowered by discretionary powers granted to them in the Constitution, to craft just and equitable solutions, despite a finding that an agreement is constitutionally invalid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saflii.org\/za\/cases\/ZASCA\/2021\/47.html\">The Judgment<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/stbb_plu10-2021_s1.pdf\">Summary of the Judgment<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONSTITUTIONALLY INVALID AGREEMENT ENFORCABLE BY COURT&#8217;S DISCRETION? BW Brightwater Way Props (Pty) Ltd v Eastern Cape Development Corporation (1235\/2019) [2021] ZASCA 47 (19 April 2021) What happens when government leases a hotel property to you and then, when you ask<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":2934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-property-law-update"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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