POPIA Judgments and Cases

You need to know about and possibly take action when the courts hand down POPIA judgments or POPIA cases. It is a critical part of ensuring that your organisation complies with data protection law. POPIA is a principle-based law, and our courts apply the principles to real-world scenarios or activities. But how are you supposed to monitor all judgments on an ongoing basis to find the relevant ones, read them to understand what the latest POPIA judgments deal with, and decide what action you might need to take in response to them?  Impossible? Don’t worry, we do this for you.

We continually monitor and provide a plain-language summaries of all POPIA judgments or POPIA cases. Our summaries highlight what action you might need to take in response. We summarise any judgment that applies to POPIA. We do all the hard work for you to save you time.

What POPIA judgments or cases?

Essentially, we monitor and summarise any judgments that apply to the Protection of Personal Information Act http://www.popia.co.za (POPIA judgments). We also monitor and summarise data privacy judgments or cases in a South African context. Privacy is a broad topic and includes various aspects like data privacy, the privacy of communications, bodily privacy, and surveillance. We focus on data privacy judgments but will include others if they are relevant.

Judgment summaries

Only some of the judgment summaries are linked below. To read all previous judgment summaries and be alerted to future ones, join the Michalsons data protection programme. If you are a member and you are logged in, you will be able to view the public as well as the “Members only” judgments.