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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


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 19, 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 14, 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 13, 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 7, 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 6, 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...
Sep 2, 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 31, 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 30, 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 25, 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 24, 2022
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