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28 De Jure 446 (1995)
Thorgeir Thorgeirson v Iceland 14 European Human Rights Reports 843 (1991)

handle is hein.journals/dejur28 and id is 454 raw text is: 446 Dejure 4(l)(b)(ii) die bevoegdheid om bates van die aanwas uit te sluit en op hierdie wyse kan die aanwasbedeling in effek eers vanaf datum van registrasie van die nuwe kontrak toepassing vind. Die uitleg van huweliksvoorwaardes as verwysende na 'n voorhuwelikskontrak (sien die Engelse antenuptial contract en Mathabathe v Mathabathe 1987 3 SA 45 (W) 55B-C 57A; Lagesse v Lagesse 1992 1 SA 173 (D) 178A-B; Honey v Honey 1992 3 SA 609 (W) 611 H-J 612B-D en die bespreking deur Van Schalkwyk Honey v Honey 1992 3 SA 609 (W) 1993 Dejure 2 15 2 19) behoort myns insiens nie as struikelblok te dien nie en behoort mutatis mutandis hier van toepassing te wees. L NEIL VAN SCHALKWYK Universiteit van Pretoria Thorgeir Thorgeirson v Iceland 14 European Human Rights Reports 843 (1991) Freedom of the Press in Iceland - European Court of Human Rights - Reports based on Information by Others The struggle of an Icelandic journalist, Thorgeir Thorgeirson, for press freedom in Iceland which ultimately reached the European Court of Hu- man Rights, had an interesting influence on a recent judgment of the Press Council of South Africa where it had to decide upon the weight which could be given to unidentified sources in the compilation of several articles in the Saturday Star. Thorgeirson published two articles i.n an Icelandic newspaper in which he alleged that unspecified members of the Reykjavik police had commit- ted a number of acts of serious assault resulting in disablement of their victims, as well as forgery and other criminal offences. He was convicted by the Reykjavik criminal court of an offence under article 108 of the Penal Code partly because of failure to justify what it considered to be his own allegations. The articles consisted essentially of references to stories or rumours - emanating from persons other than Thorgeirson - or public opinion, involving allegations of police brutality. For in- stance, it was the room mates of a young man at a hospital who had recounted, and the hospital personnel who had confirmed, that he had been injured by the police. Thorgeirson had also found out that most people knew of various stories of that kind, which were so similar and numerous that they could hardly be treated as mere lies. After Thorgeirson's conviction was confirmed by the highest Icelandic court, he applied to the European Commission of Human Rights for per- mission to put his case to the European Court of Human Rights. Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights provides as fol- lows: 1 Every one has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This

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