The Children’s Act 38 of 2005 (the Act) states that divorcing parents should consider the welfare of their minor children during divorce...

Judgment has been reserved in the Constitutional Court in the long-running R14.25m defamation saga pitting Australian mining interests...

Limpopo entrepreneur Kabelo Matsepe, one of 10 people accused in the multimillion-rand VBS Mutual Bank scandal, is challenging the...

The Road Accident Fund (RAF) has incurred the wrath of lawyers, who are accusing it of trying to rescind a host of legitimate court...

Changing Your Matrimonial Regime to Out of Community of Property Couples sometimes rush into marriage and before they realize it, they...

The nasciturus fiction, refers to the legal principle in which foetuses, if born alive, will acquire all the rights of born children...

Famed SA artist Michael Costello had only just been buried when the fight over his R8m estate began. Now – seven months later – the...

A group of Rhodes University students and employees are challenging the university’s mandatory Covid-19 vaccine policy. A Daily Dispatch...

A Gauteng High Court judge has cautioned attorneys and home loan providers that there will be no shortcuts in matters involving the...

In a recent Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) ruling (Simon Roy Arcus v Jill Henree Arcus (4/2021) [2022] ZASCA 9 (21 January 2022) case), it...

While the Constitution and the Children's Act both provide protection to children, the Mediation in Certain Divorce Matters Act of 1987...

The Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) has confirmed that pediatric surgeon Professor Peter Beale, accused of being responsible for...

Justice & Correctional Affairs Minister Ronald Lamola has said that victims of evictions will soon have access to Legal Aid services in a...

Rochelle Adams – who turned to the Western Cape High Court to evict her former boyfriend Sharief Manuel from an informal settlement...

In a recent case, Botha v Steyn [2021] 4 All SA 87 (KZD), the court concluded that if the legal requirements of wedding ceremonies are...

Communities in Khayelitsha, surrounding townships and informal settlements are keenly watching a Constitutional Court hearing to force...

The Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) has sentenced a mother and a grandmother to 30 days’ imprisonment suspended on the condition that they...

The Putco bus company has been enjoying a monopoly in Gauteng for more than 20 years because its contract with the provincial Roads &...

Solidarity lodged papers in the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) seeking to declare the continuation of the Covid-19 state of disaster to be...

How is immovable property dealt with in a divorce? An uncontested divorce will result in a consent paper being drawn up by a divorce...