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\nProf Theo Broodryk is a 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\u2019s Principles of Civil Procedure in the Magistrates\u2019 Court<\/em>. 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\u2019s 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\u2019s researchers who made the biggest contribution to Department of Higher Education and Training accredited scientific publications (2014 output year). Theo has received the Rector\u2019s 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\u2019s Centre for Business Law. In 2020, Theo was awarded the prestigious Georg Forster Fellowship Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. He also serves as a member of the South African Rules Board for Courts of Law (with effect from 2022). Theo was promoted to full Professor in January 2024.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Modules taught<\/strong><\/p>\nCivil Procedure<\/p>\n
Legal Skills<\/p>\n
Global Litigation (LLM)<\/p>\n
Fields of specialisation<\/strong><\/p>\nCollective redress; class actions; civil procedure; dispute resolution; consumer protection<\/p>\n
\nPublications\/Publikasies<\/strong><\/p>\nAccredited law journals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- T Broodryk “A brief overview of collective consumer redress in the European Union and South Africa and moving towards the increased use of consumer class action in South Africa – part 2” (2024) TSAR (forthcoming).<\/em><\/li>\n
- T Broodryk “A brief overview of collective consumer redress in the European Union and South Africa and moving towards the increased use of consumer class action in South Africa – part 1” (2024) TSAR<\/em> 410-426.<\/li>\n
- T Broodryk \u201cThe Appealability of Decisions to Certify Class Actions: Where Are We Now? A Proposed Approach Post Stellenbosch University Law Clinic and Others V Lifestyle Direct Group International (Pty) Ltd and Others<\/em> (WCC)\u201d (2023: 2) SALJ<\/em> 263-284.<\/li>\n
- T Broodryk \u201cA cause of action raising a triable issue in a class action: reconsidering the certification threshold\u201d (2023: 2)\u00a0TSAR<\/em>\u00a0270-282.<\/li>\n
- T Broodryk \u201cAccess to justice in South Africa: everyone\u2019s right; an inaccessible ideal for many\u201d (2023: 20(1)) Litnet Akademies<\/em> (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.56273\/1995-5928\/2023\/j20n1e4).<\/li>\n
- T Broodryk \u201cAccess to Justice Through Class Action: The South African Case\u201d in Law, Justice and Transformation<\/em>, Stellenbosch University Faculty of Law (2022) (LexisNexis).<\/li>\n
- T Broodryk “Inappropriately assessing appropriateness of class proceedings:\u00a0Nkala v Harmony Gold Mining Company Ltd<\/i>“<\/span> (2021) South African Journal on Human Rights.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n
- T Broodryk “Class action certification and constitutional claims: the South African case” (2020) Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law<\/em>.<\/li>\n
- T Broodryk “Mediation as a tool to manage and resolve class actions” (2020) Stell LR<\/em> 226-248.<\/li>\n
- T Broodryk\u00a0\u201cAn empirical analysis of class actions in South Africa\u201d (2020)\u00a0Law, Democracy and Development <\/em>54-85.<\/li>\n
- T Broodryk & W de Vos \u201cFundamental procedural rights of civil litigants in Australia and South Africa: is there cause for concern?\u201d (part 2) (2019) 4\u00a0TSAR <\/em>627-639.<\/li>\n
- T Broodryk & W de Vos \u201cFundamental procedural rights of civil litigants in Australia and South Africa: is there cause for concern?\u201d (part 1) (2019)\u00a0TSAR <\/em>425-449.<\/li>\n
- T Broodryk \u201cThe South African Class Action Mechanism: Comparing the Opt-out regime to the Opt-in regime\u201d 22 (2019) PER<\/em>.<\/li>\n
- T Broodryk \u201cThe South African Class Action vs Group Action as an Appropriate Procedural Device\u201d (2019)\u00a0Stell LR <\/em>6-32.<\/li>\n
- T Broodryk & W de Vos \u201cManagerial judging and alternative dispute resolution in Australia: an example for South Africa to emulate?\u201d part 2 (2018)\u00a0TSAR\u00a0<\/em>18-35.<\/li>\n
- T Broodryk \u201cIndividual issues and the class action mechanism: Determining damages in mass personal injury class actions\u201d (2017)\u00a0SALJ\u00a0<\/em>4 821-846.<\/li>\n
- T Broodryk & W de Vos \u201cManagerial judging and alternative dispute resolution in Australia: an example for South Africa to emulate?\u201d part 1 (2017)\u00a0TSAR <\/em>4 683-703.<\/li>\n
- T Broodryk \u201cStrategic Considerations in Global Litigation: Comparing Judicial Case Management Approaches in South Africa with the United States\u201d (2017)\u00a0Stell LR <\/em>2 379-401.<\/li>\n
- T Broodryk \u201cGiving notice to members of opt-out class actions\u201d (2017)\u00a0TSAR <\/em>3 498-510.<\/li>\n
- T Broodryk & C Golombick \u201cTeaching Legal Writing Skills in the South African LLB Curriculum: The Role of the Writing Consultant\u201d (2016) 3\u00a0Stell LR\u00a0<\/em>535-553.<\/li>\n
- T Broodryk & M Buitendag \u201cWriting-intensive courses across the law curriculum: developing law students\u201f critical thinking and writing skills \u2013 a post-evaluation assessment\u201d 2015 36(3) Obiter\u00a0<\/em>615-630.<\/li>\n
- T Broodryk \u201cThe Erosion of the Principle of Orality in South African Civil Procedure: Fact or Fiction?\u201d\u00a0Speculum Juris\u00a0<\/em>(2014) 28 181-201.<\/li>\n
- T Broodryk \u201cWriting-intensive\u00a0courses across the law curriculum: developing law students\u2019 critical thinking and writing skills\u201d (2014)\u00a0Obiter\u00a0<\/em>34 453-466.<\/li>\n
- T Broodryk \u201cLegal 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)\u201d (2014)\u00a0Obiter\u00a0<\/em>35 393.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Books<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- T Bekker, T Broodryk and C Theophilopoulos (eds)\u00a0Fundamental Principles of Civil Procedure<\/em>\u00a05th ed (2025) (forthcoming).<\/li>\n
- T Broodryk\u00a0Eckard\u2019s Principles of Civil Procedure in the Magistrates\u2019 Courts<\/em>\u00a06th ed (2019), Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Chapters in books<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- T Broodryk \u201cClass Actions in South Africa: a need for certainty\u201d in B Fitzpatrick and R Thomas\u00a0 (eds) Cambridge International Handbook of Class Actions\u00a0<\/em>(2021) Cambridge University Press.<\/li>\n
- T Broodryk \u201cA developing mediation minnow: the South African perspective\u201d in C Esplugues & L\u00a0Marquis (eds) New Developments in Civil and Commercial Mediation: Global Comparative\u00a0Perspectives <\/em>Springer International Publishing (2015) 667-692.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Others<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- T Broodryk Country Overview: South Africa<\/em>, Global Class Actions Exchange (A collaboration between Stanford Law School, the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, and Tilburg University) 2020.<\/li>\n
- T Broodryk Class Action Litigation in South Africa, Max du Plessis, Johan Oxenham, Isabel Goodman, Luke Kelly and Sarah Pudifin-Jones (Eds.) TSAR<\/em>\u00a0(2018) 223-225 [Book review<\/em>].<\/li>\n
- T Broodryk South African report titled \u201cClass Actions in Competition Law\u201d (a collaboration between Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), November 2017.<\/li>\n
- T Broodryk \u201cStreet Law: Practical Law for South Africans\u00a0<\/em>3 ed by D McQuid-Mason\u201d (2016) 27(1)\u00a0Stell LR\u00a0<\/em>203 [Book review<\/em>].<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Waarnemende Visedekaan: Navorsing en Internasionalisering, Professor en Bestuurder: Regskliniek | Acting Vice Dean: Research and Internationalisation, Professor, and Manager: Law Clinic BA LLB (Stell), LLD Email\/E-pos: tbroodryk@sun.ac.za https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/theo-broodryk-14b23934\/ https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2514-4951 Prof Theo Broodryk is a Professor and Manager of the Law Clinic. He obtained the degrees BA, LLB and LLD from Stellenbosch University….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9949,"featured_media":0,"parent":353,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3665","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3665"}],"version-history":[{"count":85,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10454,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3665\/revisions\/10454"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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