Contracts lie at the heart of everyday business dealings. They create expectations, define responsibilities, and set the tone for the business relationship. But what happens when one party claims that…
Contracts lie at the heart of everyday business dealings. They create expectations, define responsibilities, and set the tone for the business relationship. But what happens when one party claims that…
In the recent case of Lenette Janse De Wit & 2 Others v Toerien De Wit NO & 6 Others 2026 ZASCA 23, the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) provided…
A new Constitutional Court judgment about the validity of customary and civil marriages has huge implications. An untold number of Black couples, married under customary law and later under civil…
An important new judgment will bring relief to many after great uncertainty about what South Africa’s updated divorce laws mean in practice for wives in Muslim marriages. Clarifying the role…
The Gauteng Division of the High Court has introduced mandatory court-annexed mediation and the mediation protocol. But what happens when a party simply refuses to cooperate? Can a litigant’s belief…
Each time we get behind the wheel, we assume that traffic shall flow, everything shall go as it should, and we will all get home safely at the end of…
There is creativity, and then there is crafting a property transaction so contrived that even the seller could not be sure who was buying, renovating or occupying her home. What…
Conducting oneself with integrity is of utmost importance in the provision of security services. Transparency and truthfulness are of such cardinal importance in this area of work that employees are…
A recent high court judgment has cast the spotlight on an ever-developing aspect of family law that affects all those married out of community of property with the exclusion of the accrual system. Spouses who conclude an…
Customary marriages in South Africa remain a source of legal disputes, especially when they overlap with civil marriages, inheritance, and the validity of wills. A recent case before the Supreme…
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