Prof Theo Broodryk

Managing Attorney

Prof Theo Broodryk is an Associate Professor and Manager of the Law Clinic. He obtained the degrees BA, LLB and LLD from Stellenbosch University. Theo is an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa, a Y1 NRF rated researcher and the author of Eckard’s Principles of Civil Procedure in the Magistrates’ Court. He is a Senior Researcher at the Ius Commune Research School in the programme ‘Foundations and Principles of Civil Procedure in Europe’, a Beaufort (Colenso) Fellow at St John’s College, Cambridge, and previously attended Stanford Law School as a Visiting Scholar. Theo has received numerous funding awards, including the MJ & HB Thom research funding award and an NRF Knowledge Interchange and Collaboration funding award. He has been institutionally recognised for his research contributions, including being one of the University’s researchers who made the biggest contribution to Department of Higher Education and Training accredited scientific publications (2014 output year). Theo has received the Rector’s Award for outstanding work performance. He is a member of the International Association of Procedural Law. His research focus is collective redress, including class actions. Theo is also certified as an arbitrator by the Association of Arbitrators (Southern Africa) and obtained a certificate in advanced labour law from the University of South Africa’s Centre for Business Law.

Theo was recently (2020) awarded the prestigious Georg Forster Fellowship Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany.

Publications/Publikasies

Accredited law journals

  • T Broodryk "'Class action certification and constitutional claims: the South African case" (2020) Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law (accepted for publication).
  • T Broodryk "Mediation as a tool to manage and resolve class actions" (2020) Stell LR (accepted for publication).
  • T Broodryk “An empirical analysis of class actions in South Africa” (2020) Law, Democracy and Development 54-85.
  • T Broodryk & W de Vos “Fundamental procedural rights of civil litigants in Australia and South Africa: is there cause for concern?” (part 2) (2019) 4 TSAR 627-639.
  • T Broodryk & W de Vos “Fundamental procedural rights of civil litigants in Australia and South Africa: is there cause for concern?” (part 1) (2019) TSAR 425-449.
  • T Broodryk “The South African Class Action Mechanism: Comparing the Opt-out regime to the Opt-in regime” 22 (2019) PER.
  • T Broodryk “The South African Class Action vs Group Action as an Appropriate Procedural Device” (2019) Stell LR 6-32.
  • T Broodryk & W de Vos “Managerial judging and alternative dispute resolution in Australia: an example for South Africa to emulate?” part 2 (2018) TSAR 18-35.
  • T Broodryk “Individual issues and the class action mechanism: Determining damages in mass personal injury class actions” (2017) SALJ 4 821-846.
  • T Broodryk & W de Vos “Managerial judging and alternative dispute resolution in Australia: an example for South Africa to emulate?” part 1 (2017) TSAR 4 683-703.
  • T Broodryk “Strategic Considerations in Global Litigation: Comparing Judicial Case Management Approaches in South Africa with the United States” (2017) Stell LR 2 379-401.
  • T Broodryk “Giving notice to members of opt-out class actions” (2017) TSAR 3 498-510.
  • T Broodryk & C Golombick “Teaching Legal Writing Skills in the South African LLB Curriculum: The Role of the Writing Consultant” (2016) 3 Stell LR 535-553.
  • T Broodryk & M Buitendag “Writing-intensive courses across the law curriculum: developing law students‟ critical thinking and writing skills – a post-evaluation assessment” 2015 36(3) Obiter 615-630.
  • T Broodryk “The Erosion of the Principle of Orality in South African Civil Procedure: Fact or Fiction?” Speculum Juris (2014) 28 181-201.
  • T Broodryk “Writing-intensive courses across the law curriculum: developing law students’ critical thinking and writing skills” (2014) Obiter 34 453-466.
  • T Broodryk “Legal representation at the CCMA: Law Society of the Northern Provinces v Minister of Labour 2013 (1) BLLR 105 (GNP) and CCMA v Law Society, Northern Provinces 2013 (11) BLLR 1057 (SCA)” (2014) Obiter 35 393.

Chapters in books

  • T Broodryk “Class Actions in South Africa: a need for certainty” in B Fitzpatrick and R Thomas  (eds) Cambridge International Handbook of Class Actions (2020, forthcoming).
  • T Broodryk “A developing mediation minnow: the South African perspective” in C Esplugues & L Marquis (eds) New Developments in Civil and Commercial Mediation: Global Comparative Perspectives Springer International Publishing (2015) 667-692.

Books

  • T Broodryk Eckard’s Principles of Civil Procedure in the Magistrates’ Courts 6th ed (2019), Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd.

Others

  • T Broodryk Country Overview: South Africa, Global Class Actions Exchange (A collaboration between Stanford Law School, the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, and Tilburg University) 2020.
  • T Broodryk Class Action Litigation in South Africa, Max du Plessis, Johan Oxenham, Isabel Goodman, Luke Kelly and Sarah Pudifin-Jones (Eds.) TSAR (2018) 223-225 [Book review].
  • T Broodryk South African report titled “Class Actions in Competition Law” (a collaboration between Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), November 2017.
  • T Broodryk “Street Law: Practical Law for South Africans 3 ed by D McQuid-Mason” (2016) 27(1) Stell LR 203 [Book review].
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Please take notice that a class action will be instituted in the Western Cape Division of the High Court of South Africa against the companies and individuals listed below:

  1. Lifestyle Direct Group International (Pty) Ltd
  2. Capital Lifestyle Solutions (Pty) Ltd t/a Lifestyle Legal
  3. Loan Tracker SA (Pty) Ltd
  4. Loan Spotter SA (Pty) Ltd
  5. Loan Match SA (Pty) Ltd
  6. Loan Choice SA (Pty) Ltd
  7. Loan Quest SA (Pty) Ltd
  8. Loan Connector SA (Pty) Ltd
  9. Loan Hub SA (Pty) Ltd
  10. Loan Zone SA (Pty) Ltd
  11. Loan Locator SA (Pty) Ltd
  12. Loan Scout SA (Pty) Ltd
  13. Loan Tracer SA (Pty) Ltd
  14. Loan Detector SA (Pty) Ltd
  15. Lifestyle Legal (Pty) Ltd
  16. Lifestyle Attorneys (Pty) Ltd
  17. All Wheel Auto (Pty) Ltd
  18. Damian Malander
  19. Nandie Paich

Please take notice further that the class action will be brought on behalf of the following class:

“All persons who have had any monies debited from their bank accounts and/or who have been harassed and threatened in connection with any demand for or collection of payment by any of the respondents at any time from 20 May 2015 to date on the basis of them having concluded purported agreements with any of the respondents through any of the websites listed below:

Should you wish not to be a member of the class you may opt out of the class by notifying the class action attorneys of record, the Stellenbosch University Law Clinic, of your choice to so opt out by no later than Monday 30 October 2023.

The Stellenbosch University Law Clinic can be contacted at:

18 – 24 Crozier Street
Stellenbosch
Telephone: (021) 808 3600
Email: rhkadmin@sun.ac.za

Electronic copies of the Court’s order certifying the class action and the particulars of claim therein shall be available on the Stellenbosch University Law Clinic’s webpage – https://www.sulawclinic.co.za

You may contact the Stellenbosch University Law Clinic through the details provided above should you wish to obtain more information about the class action.