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Case Study Of The Bato Star Case

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The case in question is Jaga v Dönges 1950 (4) SA 653 (A), hereafter referred to as Jaga. In the 1950s, Jaga was apprehended for selling unwrought gold. He was thereafter sentenced to “three months imprisonment suspended for three years”. According to section 22 of the Admission of Persons to the Union Regulation Act 22 of 1913, “Any person who has been sentenced to imprisonment for any offence committed by the sale of unwrought precious metal and who is deemed by the Minister to be an undesirable inhabitant of the Union may be removed from the Union under a warrant.” Jaga was declared to be an undesirable inhabitant of the Union by the Minister and a deportation warrant was issued against Jaga. Jaga was to be deported to India. Jaga contended the deportation by claiming that he had …show more content…

A quota system limits the amount of fish that may be caught by a deep sea fishing trawler. This quota is determined by the Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, within the terms of the Marine Living Resources Act 18 of 1998. Section 2 of the Act, Objectives and principles, lists the objectives of the Act, These objectives include: to restructure the fishing industry in order to achieve equity, to further biodiversity, and to achieve sustainable development. The Act states that the Minister must “have regard to” these objectives when he allocates quotas. Section 18(5) of the Act refers to the allocation of fishing quotas. This section also states that the Minister must make allocations that will achieve the objectives of section 2. The Bato Star fishing company was given its yearly quota, however, the company felt that the quota was too small, and therefore approached the court to have the quota allocations disregarded. The case brought on the question of whether the Minister did “have regard to” the objectives of ‘achieving equity’ when the quotas were

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