By Nomfundo Manyathi-Jele The Law Society of South Africa’s (LSSA) Legal Education and Development (LEAD) division has identified 100 law students to be placed at 50 law firms in Limpopo […]
Read moreBy Nomfundo Manyathi-Jele The Constitutional Court has dismissed the Law Society of the Northern Provinces (LSNP) application for leave to appeal a Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) judgment. The LSNP’s […]
Read moreBy Barbara Whittle The Legal Practice Bill, 2012 was passed at a second-reading debate by the National Assembly in Parliament on 12 November 2013. The Bill was then passed to […]
Read moreThis is an abridged version of a paper delivered by Johannesburg attorney Mohamed Husain at the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation 2013 annual conference in October 2013, titled Lost in transformation? Reviewing […]
Read moreBy Ivan Kramer If a dependant is compensated for the loss of support by a breadwinner, does the dependant receive the support that would have been received had the accident […]
Read moreHerholdt v Nedbank Limited (SCA) (unreported case 701/2012, 5-9-2013) (Cachalia and Wallis JJA; Nugent, Shongwe JJA and Swain AJA concurring) By Moksha Naidoo The appellant, Herholdt, a financial advisor, was […]
Read moreBy Talita Laubscher and Monique Jefferson In Western Cape Education Department v General Public Service Sectoral Bargaining Council and Others [2013] 8 BLLR 834 (LC) Steenkamp J was required to […]
Read moreHeinrich Schulze BLC LLB (UP) LLD (Unisa) is a professor of law at Unisa. September 2013 (4) The South African Law Reports (pp 1 – 323); [2013] 3 The All […]
Read moreBy Edrick Roux One of the cornerstones of the law of succession in South Africa is the principle of freedom of testation. One of the ideas behind it is that […]
Read moreBy Jason Mitchell The scenario should be all too familiar: A client purchased a house and it transpires that the foundations are riddled with structural defects caused by negligent building. […]
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