Judiciary: ConCourt taking longer to deliver judgments – research
The average time the Constitutional Court has taken to deliver a judgment has ‘almost exactly doubled’ since 2010, according to...
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Sep 19, 2022
Legislation: New regulations for Internet censorship law
Communications Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has published amended Films and Publications (FPB) regulations that set out new rules...
Sep 14, 2022
Litigation: Hospital liable for alcoholic's death fall
Livingstone Hospital and the Eastern Cape MEC of Health have been found liable – almost a decade later – for damages after a patient died...
Sep 13, 2022
Legislation: Blacklisting of maintenance defaulters on cards – Minister
An amendment to the Maintenance Act to blacklist maintenance defaulters with credit bureaus is in the pipeline. Justice & Correctional...
Sep 7, 2022
Energy: ‘Targeted power cuts’ face legal action threat
Implementing load reduction is one of the few options available to Eskom to act against electricity users and municipalities that owe the...
Sep 6, 2022
Litigation: Departments held liable for lawyer’s court fall
A lawyer who slipped on a wet floor in the passage of a Magistrate’s Court and severely injured his shoulder is claiming nearly R2.9m...
Sep 2, 2022
Litigation: Private school group tackles city on two fronts
Private school group Curro is fighting the City of Johannesburg in two legal cases as it disputes irregular billing and a decision by the...
Aug 31, 2022
RELOCATION OF A MINOR CHILD
In a recent High Court case, Klopper v Steyn 2022 JDR 1375 (GP) 2022 JDR 1375 (GP), judge Makhoba J passed a judgement on relocation. The...
Aug 30, 2022
General: Did disgraced academic profit from fake degree?
Disgraced Professor Edwin Ijeoma, the former academic who resigned after being accused of admitting unqualified civil servants for...
Aug 25, 2022
Legislation: Unexplained wealth law gets broad backing
Several agencies involved in fighting corruption have agreed that SA needs legislation that would allow them to investigate unexplained...
Aug 24, 2022
Litigation: Council tests state plan to seize vegan products
The Consumer Goods Council of SA (CGCSA) – which counts Pick n Pay, Shoprite and Spar among its 9 000 members – has launched an urgent...
Aug 23, 2022
Litigation: Battle over low-cost medical scheme options
The medical schemes industry has taken its regulator to court for stalling cheaper, simpler benefit packages designed for low-income...
Aug 18, 2022
Labour: Employee who defied 'no high heels' rule wins case
The Labour Court (Johannesburg) has ordered that Litshani Mofokeng – dismissed five years ago after expressing dissatisfaction about the...
Aug 12, 2022
Major change for maintenance and divorce in South Africa
In a recent Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) judgement, Z v Z (556/2021) [2022] ZASCA 113 (21 July 2022) case, the appellant (the mother)...
Aug 10, 2022
Litigation: Customary union ruled valid in wives' dispute
The weight which customary marriages carry was once again illustrated during a legal wrangle by two widows. A Cape Times report says both...
Aug 5, 2022
Litigation: Breakthrough in R60bn class action against banks
An attempt by the National Credit Regulator (NCR) to suppress disclosure of a key piece of evidence showing how banks were repossessing...
Aug 3, 2022
Litigation: SMSs from ex-wife not 'domestic violence' – ruling
A husband has failed to persuade the SCA that his former wife's strongly worded SMSs amount to harassment, notes Legalbrief. He lost his...
Aug 2, 2022
Rule 43 Interim Maintenance Application
What is a Rule 43 Application? A Rule 43 Application provides for the following, which can be used to obtain an order from the relevant...
Jul 28, 2022
Weekly article from IR Network Daily Update
Substantive fairness in dismissal Ali / Rain (Pty) Ltd - (2022)31 CCMA 8.37.23 also reported at [2022] 7 BALR 698 (CCMA) Subject matter...
Jul 27, 2022
Practice: Ruling seen as step closer to free education
A Mpumalanga High Court (Mbombela) ruling favoring a law graduate who was denied admission as an advocate for five years has been...
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