Standard Bank of South Africa Ltd v Koekemoer and Others

The provided judgment text does not contain the substantive factual background of the dispute. It only records a post-judgment correction following delivery of judgment, where the appellant’s attorneys alerted the Supreme Court of Appeal to an error regarding the commencement date for the calculation of interest claimed.

The court ordered that the date “1 May 1996” be substituted with “1 May 2001” in paragraph (2)(a) of both the judgment and the court order.

Although procedurally narrow, the case illustrates the Supreme Court of Appeal’s power to correct its own judgments to reflect the true intention of the court and the correct factual or clerical position, particularly in relation to interest calculations which can have significant financial consequences.