By Kgomotso Ramotsho President Cyril Ramaphosa has made four senior appointments at the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), in terms of ss 9(1) and 11(1) of the National Prosecuting Authority Act […]
Read moreOn 5 November 2020 the book ‘I want to tell you’ was launched in Pretoria by the Director at Family Assist, Marici M Corneli. The book is meant as a […]
Read moreBy Kgomotso Ramotsho The National Association of Democratic Lawyers (NADEL) held a memorial for the late Silas Nkanunu on 16 November 2020. The Chairperson of the Legal Practice Council (LPC), […]
Read moreBy Kgomotso Ramotsho The Southern African Development Community Lawyers Association (SADC LA) held a webinar on 7 October 2020 under the theme ‘Regional Solidarity on the Independence of the Legal […]
Read moreIn the November Editorial, ‘What does the Law Society of South Africa do?’ 2020 (Nov) DR 3, I wrote about the functions performed by the Law Society of South Africa […]
Read moreIt is often said that legal practitioners are creatures of client instructions. At the core of the vast ecosystem that makes up legal practice is the relationship between a legal […]
Read moreSouth Africa (SA) has a widely admired Constitution with a Bill of Rights that embeds human dignity and sets out minutely detailed protections for those arrested on criminal charges (s […]
Read moreIn the first part of the article, we considered the delays that dog the South African criminal justice system – some systemic, some lawyer- and accused-instigated. Are there possible fixes? […]
Read moreAn employer has the prerogative to institute disciplinary action against an employee who has committed misconduct. This article is based on the backdrop wherein the parties enter into a tripartite […]
Read moreSince the COVID-19 lockdown, there has been a significant uptake in the number of South Africans who are considering emigration. All too often though, the emigrants are not looking to […]
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