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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 25, 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 24, 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 20, 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...
Jan 19, 2023


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 13, 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 8, 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...
Dec 6, 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 25, 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 22, 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 10, 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,...
Nov 9, 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 19, 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 13, 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 12, 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 5, 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...
Oct 3, 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 29, 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 28, 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,...
Sep 23, 2022


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...
Sep 21, 2022
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