Archive 2014

The Road Accident Fund Act 56 of 1996 and serious injuries

By Leslie Kobrin The Road Accident Fund Amendment Act 19 of 2005 came into effect on 1 August 2008. The provisions discussed in this article affect persons injured in motor […]

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Ghostwriting: The key that will open courtroom doors?

By Izette Knoetze Most people cannot afford comprehensive legal assistance. Those in need of legal assistance are grateful for any assistance they can get and are willing to pay what […]

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Employment law update – Adopting a flexible and ‘situation sensitive’ approach to discrimination claims

Solidarity obo Barnard v SAPS (SCA) (unreported case no 165/13, 28-11-2013) (Navsa ADP, Ponnan, Tshiqi, Theron JJA and Zondi AJA) By Moksha Naidoo On two separate occasions, Barnard, a white […]

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Employment law update – Section 189A(13) of the Labour Relations Act

By Talita Laubscher and Monique Jefferson In National Union of Mineworkers v Anglo American Platinum Ltd and Others [2013] 12 BLLR 1253 (LC) the applicant, NUM, brought an urgent application […]

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Ordering the selling of motor vehicles in debt re-arrangement orders: A road not (to be) travelled?

Motor Finance Corporation (Pty) Ltd v Jan Joubert and Others (GNP) (unreported case no A629/2013, 19-8-2013) (Chetty  and Ebersohn AJJ) By Bouwer van Niekerk A potentially far-reaching decision regarding the […]

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Criminal and intentional acts versus COIDA

Twalo v The Minister of Safety and Security and Another [2009] 2 All SA 491 (E) By Justice Finger Court judgments with far-reaching effect sometimes go unnoticed for many years. […]

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The law reports – March 2014

Heinrich Schulze BLC LLB (UP) LLD (Unisa) is a professor of law at Unisa. January 2014 (1) The South African Law Reports (pp 1 – 321); [2013] 4 The All […]

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Facilitative mediation

Seeing more than the tip of the iceberg By Lieselotte Badenhorst The practice of ‘legal’ mediation has – for many years now – been widely accepted in the United Kingdom […]

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Franchise agreements – does the Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008 point in the right direction?

By Ben Whitelaw When the Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008 (CPA) was introduced in 2011 it was welcomed as an overdue step in the regulation of franchise agreements. The […]

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Stem cell research – is South African law locking progress?

By Yda van Aartsen On 15 April 2013 it was reported that a researcher in the United States of America (USA), Dr Atala, announced that he had made a breakthrough […]

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