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Why beneficial ownership is still one of business’s biggest blind spots
When organisations conduct due diligence on a new customer, supplier or business partner, there's often a sense of reassurance once the basics have been verified. The company registration checks out, the directors are identified, and the necessary documentation has been collected. The onboarding process moves forward with confidence.
But here's...
Trusted legal research starts with verified sources
Researchers increasingly use artificial intelligence to support research across many fields, including law. While these tools offer speed and convenience, their effectiveness depends on the quality and reliability of the information they draw on.
In a legal context, accuracy and source credibility are essential. Researchers must ground their research in...
Have you started your Directive 11 RCR submission yet?
On 31 March 2026, the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) officially issued Directive 11 of 2026, mandating Legal practitioners and other Accountable Institutions (AIs) to submit their 2026 Risk and Compliance Return (RCR) electronically by 31 July 2026.
The questionnaire aims to provide the FIC with an understanding of how Accountable...
Are we creating better customer experiences … or just better fraud...
There is no question that customer expectations have changed. Today, people expect to open a bank account in minutes, secure insurance online, sign property documents digitally or register for services without ever visiting a branch. Organisations that make these experiences fast and intuitive are often rewarded with higher conversion...
The race to remove friction from South Africa’s property transfer process
The South African property market has made significant strides in digitisation over the past decade, yet for many homebuyers, sellers, banks, and attorneys, the property transfer journey remains a process defined by paperwork, delays, fragmented communication, and administrative bottlenecks.
While consumers have become accustomed to digital-first experiences in sectors such...
THE REGULATOR IS NOT YOUR EARLY WARNING SYSTEM: The Compliance Hangover
Why Legal Risk Is Still Managed After the Party …
There’s a particular silence that settles over a boardroom when a compliance problem stops being theoretical. It usually arrives just after someone says, “How did we not see this coming?” and just before everyone starts searching inboxes for the policy...
EU rules on AI models become enforceable. What’s going to change?
The enforcement of the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act brings major new regulatory powers into effect. The European Commission’s AI Office, alongside national authorities, can now actively oversee and enforce rules governing general-purpose AI (GPAI) models.
A cornerstone of this enforcement phase is the implementation of strict transparency requirements. Chatbots...
Daan’s Snippets – 2nd August 2026
News
Docex used to be the go-to method of delivery amongst attorneys in South Africa, but, of late, that service has waned in favour of courier services for various reasons. Now the Post Office has come up with a system of sending a legally binding document via email – take...
The AI Imperative – Reshaping the Legal Industry (2026) by Deloitte
Deloitte's latest global survey of more than 100 senior legal leaders shows that the legal profession has passed the AI experimentation stage. The conversation is no longer "Should we use AI?" but "How do we get real value from it?" The report is aimed largely at corporate legal departments,...
He Built Big Law’s $10 Billion Firm. Now He’s Betting Against...
David Fox wrote the playbook that made Kirkland & Ellis the largest law firm on earth. His new venture runs on fewer than 10 people and a corporate structure that finally lets outsiders own a piece of a law firm.
David Fox, the dealmaker credited with turning Kirkland & Ellis...
Legal AI: The Systemic Mistake of Organisations That Start With the...
In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Dumbledore advises Harry to follow the spiders. They do not give him the answer. They point him in a direction. It is the memory of the path taken the clues accumulated, the connections established between seemingly unrelated elements that ultimately reveals...
No lawyer, no bail: the human cost of Legal Aid SA’s...
For some accused people, the absence of a Legal Aid lawyer in court can mean the difference between applying for bail that day and spending another seven days or longer behind bars.
That, according to two sources familiar with conditions inside Legal Aid South Africa, is one of the human...
Daan’s Snippets – 19th July 2026
Practice News
· The race card! The LPC has applied to the Pretoria High Court to have Mkhwebane (our previous PP) removed from the roll of advocates. Amongst the howls of protest from MK, is her statement that the LPC should have first heard her in a disciplinary hearing; definitely...
The Boardroom has a Dashboard for Everything Except the Lawsuit that...
Why legal risk is becoming a live business metric…
Boards have become very good at measuring things. Sales pipelines are sliced by region before breakfast. Cash flow is stress-tested before lunch. Cyber incidents flash on dashboards with the calm urgency of a hospital monitor. Operations teams can tell you how...
(A)I rest my case: AI and the future of online dispute...
If there is one thing organisations know well, it is that disputes are expensive. The expense extends beyondlegal fees, to management time, damaged relationships, and strategic distraction. A supplier dispute that should take weeks can consume months of senior attention, and for multinationals juggling cross-jurisdictional matters, the logistical burden...
Daan’s Snippets – 6th July 2026
Practice News
AI and its potential in taking (legal) jobs away has been much in the news: the following article is quite interesting and has a completely different take on the issue: https://artificialauthority.ai/p/the-lump-of-law-fallacy
Going sideways; if this sort of thing tickles your fancy, look up the ‘Jevons paradox’.
Practitioners and such: the SIU...
SOTRU launches to stop supplier fraud at the moment of payment
SOTRU Identity and Communications (Pty) Ltd, a South African verification and secure communication platform, launches in the market to tackle a fraud problem that traditional KYC and KYB checks were never built to solve: impersonation and payment fraud that happens after a supplier has been verified.
Business email compromise hit...
THE SETTLEMENT ACCELERATOR: How Legal Tech Is Changing Corporate Dispute Resolution
Corporate disputes used to reward patience, paperwork and whoever could afford the longest war of attrition. That era is closing. Early case assessment, legal technology and AI-compatible practice systems are shifting the advantage to the side that finds the truth first, acts commercially and settles before litigation becomes a...
The Architecture of Awe – Why the World Needs Beautiful Words
In a world increasingly governed by the cold precision of algorithms and the binary rigidity of numbers, we’re often told that data is the ultimate truth. We’re told that numbers rule the world. But while numbers can measure the...
The High Cost of Low Stakes
Why a Staff Writer is a Death Sentence for Your Brand …
"Hiring a staff writer to explain the law is like hiring a Lego architect to build a cathedral. The dimensions are correct, but the soul has been traded for interlocking plastic safety....
The Bot that Cried “Statute”!
Why Your Law Firm Needs a Human (Specifically, a Belletrist) …
Let’s be honest - we are all currently living in a digital fever dream. If I see one more LinkedIn post generated by a bot that starts with "In...
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