TY - JOUR AU - Tsele, Michael PY - 2017/12/18 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Disclosure in Centre for Child Law v the Governing Body of Hoƫrskool Fochville JF - Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal JA - PER VL - 20 IS - 0 SE - Case Notes DO - 10.17159/1727-3781/2017/v20i0a2134 UR - https://perjournal.co.za/article/view/4177 SP - 1-20 AB - <p>When a party refers to evidentiary material in the course of litigation, ordinarily this party is under an obligation to make this evidence available to his opponent, particularly when called upon to do so. However, over the years various principles have developed which make this obligation subject to certain limitations. The <em>Fochville</em> cases dealt with a situation where a party to litigation sought to withhold certain information from its adversary, notwithstanding the fact that the material had been relied upon as a ground for the institution of the litigation. This note critiques the judgments of the High Court and in particular the Supreme Court of Appeal in this dispute. In so doing, it draws on useful foreign law to argue that the Supreme Court of Appeal's judgment was an unfortunate one in that the court failed to clarify with reasonable precision the circumstances in which a party to litigation involving children's interests may legitimately resist disclosing evidence to his adversary, in which the party resisting disclosure invokes the principle of public interest immunity. In this regard, the note concludes that the High Court's overall approach to the issue is to be preferred.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&amp;user=C4ZqO54AAAAJ&amp;view_op=list_works&amp;sortby=pubdate&amp;gmla=AJsN-F5wkyqzYFl5XLu6dUAcrz0an5G8V2QJkfXytfCpO5ogVZXmSJbbNm1lbFVWJSQKmcJABF88a8hJPEnBpE_BYyfNsZq0vHDyYcD7Nrs0M7OU3HLfB4c&amp;sciund=10613628468297331726" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="/public/site/images/tshiamo/Google_Scholar_111.png">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</a><a href="https://www.scienceopen.com/search#%7B%22order%22%3A0%2C%22context%22%3A%7B%22journal%22%3A%7B%22id%22%3A%22PER%253A%2BPotchefstroomse%2BElektroniese%2BRegsblad%22%2C%22kind%22%3A59%7D%2C%22kind%22%3A12%7D%2C%22orderLowestFirst%22%3Afalse%2C%22kind%22%3A77%7D" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="/public/site/images/tshiamo/ScienceOpen_Log0339.png"></a></p> ER -