
Factions often arise within groups, communities, or organisations, particularly when financial or other benefits are at stake. However, laws and regulations exist to manage such situations, ensuring that they are…
Factions often arise within groups, communities, or organisations, particularly when financial or other benefits are at stake. However, laws and regulations exist to manage such situations, ensuring that they are…
A regular occurrence in the world of the drafting of Wills is when the maker of a Will (the testator/testatrix) expresses a wish to bequeath property to one or more…
‘‘In our law of succession, the estate of a deceased person does not include rights and liabilities of a purely personal nature attached to that person and that have terminated…
The constitutional court’s recent decision in Rademeyer v Ferreira sheds a clarifying light on the very point at which a debt relating to a purchaser’s obligations stemming from a sale…
In January this year the high court delivered a landmark judgment in the case of Body Corporate The Straight v Jansen Madike Katisi. The judgment addresses the issue of non-paying…
Anyone who has ever had to visit a police station, either to formally report a traumatic criminal incident, or to simply certify a document or two, may have had an…
What happens when an employer repeatedly evades personal service, leaving an employee high and dry, unable to ensure the implementation of a valid court order? It’s a problem that’s easier…
The Companies Act, No. 71 of 2008 (the “Companies Act”), which came into operation on 1 May 2011, replaced the 1973 Companies Act. In July 2024, more than a decade…
In the case of Maria Luisa Palma Codevilla v Paula Jane Kennedy-Smith NO and Others (494/2023) [2024] ZASCA 136, the case dealt with an appeal to the Supreme Court of…
The South Gauteng High Court has addressed issues relating to the shared residency of minor children in a recent judgment relating to three separate unopposed divorce matters. In each of…