Nov 7, 2017 | Conveyancing and Property Law, Corporate and Commercial Law
Apart from specific exceptions such as Land Sales, Wills and Suretyships, in terms of South African law, a person can enter into most agreements without written formalities. What this means is that parties can generally enter into valid contracts orally and it follows...
Mar 31, 2017 | Criminal Law, Litigation and Dispute Resolution
South Africa experienced its first successful private prosecution case in the recent judgment of Private Prosecutor v Hendricks 32/94/2010, heard in May 2016, in which a family succeeded in convicting an accused of murder and sentencing him to 15 years imprisonment....
Feb 2, 2017 | Insolvency Law
Insolvency is the state of being unable to pay the money owed, by a person or company, on time. To be sequestrated means that your assets are sold in order to pay your debt. Under current South African Insolvency Law, a person can be sequestrated either voluntarily or...
Nov 3, 2016 | Commercial Recoveries, Regulatory
On 11 May 2016 the Department of Trade and Industry issued a Government Gazette Notice 39981 regarding the thresholds which determine whether or not a lender of credit or loans in terms of the National Credit Act (NCA) must register to do so. National Credit Act...
