Archive for May, 2015

Employment law update – Termination in breach of a statutory provision – a dismissal or nullity?

x Bookmark Edcon v Steenkamp and Others (LAC) (unreported case no JS648/13, JS51/14, JS350/14, 3-3-2015) (Murphy AJA with Tlaletsi DJP and Musi JA concurring). By Moksha Naidoo Section 189A of […]

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Employment law update – Mutual termination agreements

x Bookmark By Talita Laubscher and Monique Jefferson The applicants in Schroeder and Another v Pharmacare Ltd t/a Aspen Pharmacare [2015] 2 BLLR 168 (LC) each signed a ‘mutual termination […]

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The new Interest Withholding Tax: What attorneys need to know

x Bookmark By Barry Ger On 1 March 2015, a new Interest Withholding Tax (IWT) came into effect in South Africa. From that date, 15% of any interest paid to or […]

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The law reports – May 2015

x Bookmark Heinrich Schulze BLC LLB (UP) LLD (Unisa) is a professor of law at Unisa. March 2015 (1) South African Law Reports (pp 1 – 328); [2015] 1 All […]

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Muslim marriages and divorce

x Bookmark By Megan Harrington-Johnson The status of Muslim Marriages in South Africa has, since 1990, been the subject of ongoing investigation and discussion by the South African Law Reform […]

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‘Beware the hired gun’

x Bookmark Are expert witnesses unbiased? By Henry Lerm More than a century and a half ago, judges started complaining about the lack of independence and objectivity when hearing expert […]

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The debt collection scandal

x Bookmark By Gerhard Buchner The credit explosion ‘Reckless lending continues unabated’ says Angelique Arde in the Star 14-2-2015. The cause of the Marikana revolt, is the impoverishment of lowly […]

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Keep your Tweets twibel free

x Bookmark By Sherika Maharaj A storm is raging Social media has taken the communications world by storm. There has never been an easier and more accessible means of interacting […]

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Bridging finance pitfalls

x Bookmark By the Prosecution and Financial Forensic Investigation Team of the Attorneys Fidelity Fund Law firms venture into bridging finance, especially for conveyancing matters. What is bridging finance? Bridging […]

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Attorneys as trustees beware!

x Bookmark By Mervin Messias I would like to bring to the attention of attorneys an issue that I consider to be highly relevant in the context of trust law. […]

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