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May 5, 2022
Litigation: Magistrate wrong to turn deaf ear to attorney's plea
An attorney who received hundreds of phone calls in one week from someone and then lost his application for a protection order against...
May 4, 2022
Labour: Employee sacked for tasting carrots gets job back
A Pietermaritzburg Nando’s employee, fired for eating two carrot slices in 2018, is to get his job back after nearly four years. This is...
Apr 29, 2022
The legal duty of grandparents to support their grandchildren
The common law and the Children’s Act 38 of 2005 recognize that parents are the primary caregivers of their children by imposing on them...
Apr 28, 2022
Litigation: Law blocks infertile man's surrogacy attempt
A single, infertile man who desperately wants a child has had his wishes dashed by the KZN High Court (Pietermaritzburg). A Sunday Times...
Apr 28, 2022
Policy: Floods State of Disaster extension likely – Minister
Co-operative Governance & Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma says the declaration of the national State of Disaster, due...
Apr 26, 2022
Litigation: Court rules for sangoma in eviction matter
The owners of a Johannesburg business premises who kicked out a sangoma, along with some of the ‘tools of her trade’, from the office she...
Apr 21, 2022
General: Young pro-life doctor wins battle to practise
The Health Professions Council of SA has bowed to pressure from various lobby groups pressing the case of pro-life medic Jacques de Vos...
Apr 20, 2022
Telecoms: Icasa proposes data bundles relief for consumers
Mobile data users may soon no longer have to worry about their bundles expiring for at least six months, following proposed amendments to...
Apr 19, 2022
Litigation: e.tv seeks ConCourt intervention on set-top boxes
Free-to-air private broadcaster e.tv has made a direct application to the Constitutional Court to appeal the dismissal of its bid to...
Apr 14, 2022
What the law says about Divorce Settlements & Pension Funds
The term ‘pension fund’ is both a general name for all types of retirement funds that fall within the scope of the Pension Funds Act 24...
Apr 13, 2022
Litigation: Magistrate halts council's eviction of single mother
A Brits magistrate has refused a bid by the municipality to evict a single mother, whose child has special needs, from her home. GroundUp...
Apr 13, 2022
Litigation: Children take on dad over right to bury mother
A tussle took place in the Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) between a father and his two children regarding the burial of his late wife...
Apr 12, 2022
General: Minister making courts more accessible
The Department of Justice is planning to establish magisterial districts and District Courts in four provinces to make courts more...
Apr 8, 2022
House sale proceeds held for maintenance guarantee
A former husband who has been in arrears with maintenance for his two children and owes his former wife about R200 000 will not see the...
Apr 7, 2022
General: Judiciary has duty to transform legal culture – Mlambo
Delivering the 16th Annual Human Rights Lecture on ’transformative societal change and the role of a judge in post-apartheid SA’ at...
Apr 7, 2022
Medico-legal: Legal incompetence blow for mother of disabled child
A single mother caring for a severely disabled child has been left high and dry after a court overturned a previous order that the MEC...
Apr 6, 2022
Policy: Working of two-pot retirement plan questioned
The Association for Savings and Investment SA (Asisa) is opposed to the Treasury’s proposal that a portion of accumulated assets be...
Apr 6, 2022
Policy: Motor insurance proposed to replace RAF
SA’s Fuel Retailers Association has proposed scrapping the Road Accident Fund (RAF) in favour of a mandatory insurance scheme. A Business...
Mar 31, 2022
Non-biological dad's guardianship bid falls short
In the recent case of CR v CHS (45327- 2021) [2022], a Johannesburg man lost his court bid to maintain contact with, and care for, a...
Mar 31, 2022
Litigation: Court lists guidelines for surrogacy agreements
A Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) judgment has set new guidelines for courts to take into consideration before granting surrogacy...
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