Where do agreements between spouses that are contrary to the ANC stand?
The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) recently set out that separate agreements from an antenuptial contract (ANC) or prenup are valid and...
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Jan 25, 2023
Litigation: Husband ordered to fork out for ‘escort’ wife
The Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) has ordered a husband to continue paying maintenance of R36 000 a month to his estranged wife,...
Jan 24, 2023
Litigation: Mother, Medihelp battle over payment for son's treatment
Gauteng mother Michaney de Wet made a last-minute dash to the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) late in December to compel the family’s...
Jan 20, 2023
Litigation: Court heard 'voice of the child', says judge
A South African-born child to start school in Croatia after her father won a legal battle against his estranged wife, notes a report in...
Jan 19, 2023
Family: Marriage relationship not like a business, says judge
A man who argued that his ex-wife was not entitled to benefits from their marriage in community of property because she had an affair and...
Dec 13, 2022
Litigation: Woman's bid to sue McDonald's falls flat
A Gauteng woman, who slipped and fell at a McDonald's at the Wingtip Crossing Shopping Centre in Montana, Pretoria, has lost a bid to...
Dec 8, 2022
Delict: R1.5m damages for passenger pushed off train
A man who worked as a packer is due to receive about R1.5m in damages after he suffered injuries when he was accidentally pushed out of a...
Dec 6, 2022
Family: Wife fails to stop ex sharing pension pot
A wife has lost her legal bid not to share half of her pension benefits with her ex-husband, who she said saw her as a ‘cash cow’. She...
Nov 25, 2022
Litigation: Customary marriage confusion costs widow family home
Noeliot Menziwa has lost her bid in the Western Cape High Court to reverse the sale of her house, which she says her late husband sold...
Nov 22, 2022
Labour: Working beyond agreed retirement age 'not a waiver'
What are the legal consequences of an employee continuing to work after the employee has reached the agreed-upon retirement age? Does a...
Nov 10, 2022
Best interests of the child - criminalization of the use and/ or possession of cannabis by a child
In a recent case of Centre for Child Law v Director of Public Prosecutions, Johannesburg, and Others [2022] ZACC 35, the Constitutional...
Nov 9, 2022
Litigation: Court orders payment of spousal maintenance for life
A Northern Cape High Court (Kimberley) judge has ordered the former husband of a woman, who had hardly worked and had few qualifications,...
Oct 19, 2022
Family: 'Co-ordinator' appointed for parents in child dispute
A dispute between the parents of a boy, aged seven, has resulted in a judge appointing a parenting coordinator in a bid to get the...
Oct 13, 2022
Litigation: Court told of taxi industry intimidation and violence
Lawyers for long-haul bus operator Intercape have argued that the violence and intimidation against it was a deliberate stratagem of...
Oct 12, 2022
Litigation: Johannesburg admits violating Constitution
The City of Johannesburg and the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) have conceded that they violated the Constitution by...
Oct 5, 2022
Family: Judge rejects dad's glowing account of life in US
A father of three who lives in Texas and is said to have subjected his children to a nomadic life has failed to persuade the Gauteng High...
Oct 3, 2022
MAINTENANCE OF MAJOR CHILDREN
In a recent High Court judgment of CL v CJL 3437 / 2022, the court had to determine whether maintenance could be claimed for a major...
Sep 29, 2022
General: Call for Caselines to be put out for tender again
Multinational media and technology company Thomson Reuters has called for the Office of the Chief Justice (OCJ) to retender the court...
Sep 28, 2022
Labour: JP says under-pressure courts being misused
Basheer Waglay, Judge President of the Labour Appeal Court, and the Labour Court of SA, says about 35% of matters referred to it should...
Sep 23, 2022
Litigation: Housing policy ruled discriminatory in victory for women
In what a Cape Argus report calls a landmark victory for poor and working-class women across Cape Town, the Western Cape High Court,...
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