The Western Cape High Court has ordered the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa PRASA to pay R6.4 million after a Gugulethu man, Aviwe Hopewell Tobi, was pushed from a moving Metrorail carriage in 2013 and suffered life-changing injuries, reports Cape town Etc .
According to Conviction , Judge Fareed Moosa said the court must avoid actuarial approaches that value poorer lives as shorter. He rejected PRASA's proposed income-linked life tables and fixed Tobi's life expectancy at 71.5 years when calculating future care and loss.
In doing so the judge wrote that courts must not adopt a rigid approach and must ensure results are contextually appropriate and fair. SAFLI
