Bibliographie sélective OHADA

Anonim ortaklıklar hukuku prensipleri çerçevesinde sermaye koyma taahhüdünü yerine getiren pay sahiplerinin ortaklıktan çıkarılmalarını sağlamak kural olarak mümkün değildir. 6102 sayılı TTK ile söz konusu prensibe iki önemli istisna getirilmiştir. Bunlardan ilki birleşme yoluyla ortaklıktan çıkarma (TTK md.141/2), diğeri ise hâkim şirketin azınlığın paylarını satın alma hakkıdır (TTK md.208). Satın alma hakkına ilişkin TTK md.208 hükmünün kaleme alınmasında, mukayeseli hukuktaki düzenlemelerden etkilendiği görülen yasa koyucu tarafından, Türk şirketler hukuku doktrini ve uygulamasının özellik arz eden yönlerini de dikkate alınmış ve neticede kendine özgü bir satın alma hakkı düzenlemesi ortaya çıkarılmıştır. Under the principles of the law of joint stock companies, it is not, at least in principle, possible to squeeze out the shareholders who had fulfilled their capital subcription. However, Turkish Commercial Code nr.6102 (TTK) contains two significant exceptions to this principle. These exceptions are: squeeze-out merger (TTK article 141/2) and the squeeze-out right of the controlling company (TTK article 208). Turkish legislator, considering the important aspects of the doctrine and practice of Turkish companies law and under the influence of the regulations in the comparative law, made a sui generis regulation of squeeze-out right in the article 208 of the Turkish Commercial Code.

With the introduction of the National Water Act 36 of 1998 (NWA) in South Africa’s water regulatory regime, the foundations of the country’s existing water law system changed fundamentally. The NWA was promulgated with the primary aim to reform the law relating to water resources. The preamble to the NWA states that water is “a scarce natural resource that belongs to all people.” Section 3 of the NWA continues along similar lines and stipulates that all water use rights fall under the centralised control of the state or public trustee to inter alia improve the distribution, management, use, conservation and equality of access to this scarce resource. Statutory transformation of this nature has inevitable and important legal implications. It has for example been argued that the changed system has brought about a reallocation and redefinition of property rights to natural resources; a transformation which will inevitably impact the nature, form, extent, limits and protection of access and use rights that can be acquired in water as a natural resource. In an effort to understand the extent of the legal transformation brought about by the concept of public trusteeship, this thesis considers the impact of the concept in the broader South African water law context. The concept of public trusteeship is a novel concept in South African jurisprudence, without established links to existing principles of law. This thesis subsequently focuses on how and to what extent the German property law concept of őffentliche Sache may inform the development and interpretation of the South African concept of public trusteeship as entrenched in the NWA. Consequently, this thesis commences with an exposition of information on the idea of property and the relevance and importance of the different property rights regimes against which both the South African and German property regimes can be evaluated. This is followed by a description of the South African property rights paradigm and its different property concepts. The research introduces a novel take on the discussion of the regulation of rights in natural resources in South Africa, namely a “stewardship ethic of public trusteeship”. As a stewardship ethic could potentially influence the regulation of property in natural resources and even perhaps the property regime within which water as natural resource is regulated in South Africa, the next section of the research proceeds with a historical account of the South African water law dispensation. Although the historical review indicates that the concept of public trusteeship is not part of South Africa’s common law heritage, some of its principles find application in the common law concept of res publicae. The conclusion is that the concept of public trusteeship does not merely (re-) introduce the res publicae concept into the South African water realm. The concept of public trusteeship is a novel concept that was statutorily introduced into the South African water regulatory framework in terms whereof “ownership” of water resources vests in the national government, and are consequently administered on behalf of the nation and generations yet to come. A separate section of the research analyses and contextualises the concept of őffentliche Sache as it functions in German law to offer new insight into the implications that the statutorily introduced concept of public trusteeship might have on water as property and the property regime within which water is regulated in South Africa. This guides the study to the next section of the research, which illustrates that the concept of őffentliche Sache is at the basis of the German water regulatory framework. The conclusion of the study proposes an understanding of the concept of public trusteeship in South Africa based on lessons learned from the German concept of őffentliche Sache.

Arbitration provides speedy mode of settlement of disputes between the parties. In the course of arbitration, the arbitration tribunal has an obligation to give a fair opportunity to the parties to present their case. The fair hearing or due process of law in arbitration requires that both parties must be treated equally and given opportunity to be heard, which include a party may request the other party for production of documents, which are relevant to the case. Hence, the international arbitration rules contained the provisions to order a party, on its own or on the request of a party, to produce the documents relevant to the outcome of the case. Unless otherwise agreed by the parties, any denial of this opportunity may be considered as a violation of due process of law, consequently a party may challenge the enforcement of the award.