'Common purpose' charges come unstuck again
The recent LC judgment in NUMSA obo Ramothibe & Others v CCMA & Others again highlights the difficulty employers have in proving 'common purpose' in a strike violence context.
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Alan Rycroft (BA LLB LLM) is Emeritus Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Cape Town. He is an admitted attorney with extensive experience in the labour law field. He is a part time senior commissioner with the CCMA and has been mediating and arbitrating labour disputes for over twenty years. From 1995 to 2000 he was Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Natal. Alan has published extensively in the labour law field and is the author / co-author of “A Guide to South African Labour Law”,”Mediation : Principles, Process and Practice”, “Trade Unions and the Law in South Africa” and “Harassment in the Workplace” 
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