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Why are South African lawyers remaining in the dark with POPI?

By Mark Heyink The Internet: A massive force for good The Internet has revolutionised our society, changing our commercial and social activities far more rapidly than any changes in human […]

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Fight back and you might be found guilty: Putative self-defence

By Sherika Maharaj Putative self-defence has now been propelled into the South African limelight particularly due to the Oscar Pistorius trial and the defence strategy adopted by his legal team. […]

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Interested about the interest in debt? The in duplum rule revisited

By Kerron Edmunson The pronouncements of Madlanga J in the recent Constitutional Court case of Paulsen and Another v Slip Knot Investments 777 (Pty) Ltd 2015 (3) SA 479 (CC) […]

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Inference of negligence – is it time to jettison the maxim res ipsa loquitur?

By Pat van den Heever and Natalie Lawrenson Some accidents occur in circumstances where the evidence of the alleged negligence of the defendant is not easily available to the plaintiff […]

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Biodiversity law and the weeding out of alien species

By Ian Cox, Ilan Lax and Peter Britz It took the threat of a court order, but the Minister of Environmental Affairs (Minister) has finally given effect to ch 5 […]

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Beware of undertakings: The irrevocable instruction that was revoked

By Jacques F Rossouw Commercial realities demand that conveyancing attorneys provide guarantees and undertakings in order to fulfil their mandates to transfer immovable property. What then is the legal effect […]

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The beginning of the end – dissolution of marriage under accrual system

By Clement Marumoagae As a family law practitioner, I have realised that when entering into marriage, most people are not aware of the laws that have direct effect on their […]

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