PUBLICATIONS

“I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander’s venomed spear.”(William Shakespeare) Here’s another...

“[The buyer] must in the circumstances take responsibility for her failure to protect herself against a known risk” (extract from...

“The Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008 (CPA) establishes a broad and comprehensive scope for consumer protection. Its purview includes...

“It’s high time they legalised cannabis” (Anon) Much excitement has greeted the signing into law of the Cannabis for Private Purposes...

“These technological developments would have seemed far-fetched and science fiction a brief few years ago.” (Extract from judgment below)...

“A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on” (Samuel Goldwyn) Perhaps you are a seller marketing your property through an...

“It is declared that the [employer]’s Alcohol and Substance Abuse Policy is irrational and violates the right to privacy in section 14 of...

“It is the purpose of this Act to afford the victims of domestic violence the maximum protection from domestic abuse that the law can...

“Externally, trustees cannot disagree. In the external sphere the Trust functions by virtue of its resolutions, which have to be...

When drawing up your will (“Last Will and Testament”), remember that “clarity is king”. Ambiguity is one of the cardinal sins of...

"[W]here a seller recklessly tells a half-truth or knows the facts but does not reveal them because he or she has not bothered to...

“If cars are required to be roadworthy, shouldn’t roads be required to be car-worthy?” (Online meme) If you fall victim to a...

“In life, we never lose friends, we only learn who the true ones are” (Unknown) Lending money to a friend or family member in need sounds...

“…there is no obligation on the [seller] to obtain an occupancy certificate and to furnish it to the [buyers]” (Extract from judgment...

24 April 2024 is ‘World Intellectual Property Day’. It’s “an opportunity to explore how intellectual property (IP) encourages and can...

“It’s important to remember your competitor is only one mouse click away” (Doug Warner) Your website, social media profiles, and other...

“The first thing we do is, let’s kill all the lawyers.” (Shakespeare) Shakespeare must have had an unhappy experience or two with the...

“The conditional acceptance of an offer amounts to rejection of same and not the conclusion of a contract, but may be a counter–offer.”...

“…the prospect of continued employment must be shown to have been objectively intolerable and the employee must have resigned due to the...

“MTl’s business clearly amounted to an unlawful ponzi-scheme, i.e. a fraudulent investing scam promising high rates of return to...