Archive for September, 2014

Mediation in Family & Divorce Disputes

x Bookmark By John O’Leary Cape Town: Siber Ink (2014) 1st edition Price: R 240 (incl VAT) 86 pages (soft cover) The process of mediation within any context can be […]

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Security clearances before appointing the National Prosecuting Authority

x Bookmark By Brenda Wardle On 5 July 2014 President Jacob Zuma announced that, after careful consideration of all matters, he had decided to institute an inquiry into whether or […]

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Employment law update – Chamber of Mines obo Members v AMCU and Others (unreported case no J99/14, 23-6-2014) (Van Niekerk J)

x Bookmark By Moksha Naidoo The Chamber of Mines, a registered employers’ organisation, launched an urgent application seeking to interdict the members of the first respondent, the Association of Mineworkers […]

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Employment law update – Poor work performance of senior manager on probation

x Bookmark By Talita Laubscher and Monique Jefferson In Palace Engineering (Pty) Ltd v Ngcobo and Others [2014] 6 BLLR 557 (LAC), the Labour Appeal Court (LAC) considered the fairness […]

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A warning to all maintenance court officials

x Bookmark Mthimunye v Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development and Others (GP) (unreported case no 61876/2012, 9-5-2014) (Hiemstra AJ) By Naleen Jeram The High Court in Mthimunye v Minister […]

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The law reports – September 2014

x Bookmark Heinrich Schulze BLC LLB (UP) LLD (Unisa) is a professor of law at Unisa. July 2014 (4) The South African Law Reports (pp 1 – 317); [2014] 2 The All […]

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Business rescue: The position of secured creditors

x Bookmark By Dominique Wesso Unilateral deprivation of rights If company B goes into business rescue and secured creditor A does not have the largest voting interest, and is thereby […]

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The old and the new: A concise overview of the Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Act

x Bookmark By André van der Merwe The Intellectual Property Laws Amendment Act 28 of 2013 (the Act) will come into operation on a date to be fixed by the […]

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Can you trust your client’s memory? (Or will anyone trust yours?)

x Bookmark By Ann Bertelsmann Looking at many claims reported to the Attorneys Insurance Indemnity Fund (AIIF) my answer would be ‘no’ to both the above questions. In fact, most […]

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Fidelity Fund gets statutory private prosecution powers

x Bookmark By Moshoeshoe Toba The Judicial Matters Amendment Act 42 of 2013 came into effect in January this year. One of the amendments it effected was the insertion of […]

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