The Road Accident Fund RAF has been ordered to pay Sunshine Hospital more than R92 million within seven days.
This follows a Supreme Court of Appeal SCA application lodged by Newnet Property Pty Ltd, trading as Sunshine Hospital, against a judgment handed down in the High Court in Pretoria in June 2024 that dismissed its application to enforce the payment of a civil judgment granted against the RAF.
Sunshine Hospitals civil claims were dismissed by the high court on the basis of res judicata, a well-established legal principle that where a court has given a final judgment in a matter, any subsequent litigation between the same parties in respect of the same subject matter and based on the same cause of action is not permitted.
