The Volks Case
2005
Volks NO v Robinson and Others
Unfair discrimination on grounds of marital status
If a woman has lived with a man for half a century; borne several children with him; looked after him, their children, and their home; and nursed him in the last years of his life, should she be regarded as a stranger to his estate after his death because they had not been legally married? The majority of the Court held that it was not unfair discrimination on the grounds of marital status for the law to grant a right to
