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…
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…
Where a director has been removed by the board of directors of a company pursuant to section 71(3) of the Companies Act 71 of 2008 (the “Act”), section 71(5) gives…