by BHadmin | Mar 28, 2018 | News
“It is well established that contractual provisions are against public policy ‘… if there is a probability that unconscionable, immoral or illegal conduct will result from the implementation of the provisions according to the tenor’” (extract from judgment below) When...
by BHadmin | Mar 14, 2018 | News
Both sellers and buyers (of anything – houses, cars, you name it) need to understand how the CPA (Consumer Protection Act) has impacted on the very common “voetstoots” (“as is”) clause. Firstly, what’s the difference between “patent” and “latent” defects? Before we...
by BHadmin | Jul 18, 2017 | News
It’s every motorist’s nightmare – being stopped by a traffic officer, arrested, and carted off to the local police cells. Where you will likely languish (very, very unhappily by all accounts) until you are given “police bail”, or (in due course) taken to your first...
by BHadmin | Jul 11, 2017 | News
“The effect of PIE is not and should not be to effectively expropriate the rights of the landowner in favour of unlawful occupiers. The landowner retains the protection against arbitrary deprivation of property. Properly applied, PIE should serve merely to delay or...
by BHadmin | Jun 28, 2017 | News
If you plan to form a trust, you need to know about a new directive from the Chief Master of the High Court to all Master’s Offices in the country. The directive applies to all new trusts (those “registered for the first time”) by the Master. Following a series of...
