Daan’s Snippets – 25th May 2020
A class action has been brought by the Human Rights Foundation against the big four SA banks, accusing them of unfairly repossessing homes and...
Daan’s Snippets – 18th May 2020
The Labour Court agreed that the SAA business rescuers cannot retrench workers without producing a business rescue plan: when you are dealing with one...
Daan’s Snippets – 11 May 2020
Good news: the Deeds Offices are set to reopen on the 13th of this month. One cannot commend those in command: they had five...
Daan’s Snippets – 3rd May 2020
Practice - Nummawan has abandoned his appeal to the Concourt for leave to appeal against his failed attempt to have his criminal case struck...
Daan’s Snippets – 26th April 2020
Halelujah: the Pietermaritzburg Registrar of Deeds has just (Sunday evening) announced that the Deeds Office in Pietermaritzburg will reopen on 4 May running at...
Daan’s Snippets – 20th April 2020
Economy - It’s the economy, stupid. A phrase coined by Carville and made famous by Clinton: a couple of weeks ago, the functioning of...
Daan’s Snippets – 13th April 2020
Dr. Holness (UKZN) has reiterated a call for community service, a la a Zuma-year, for legal graduates. Superficially this is a great idea but,...
Daan’s Snippets – 6th April 2020
Economy
Price gouging: price gouging is wrong, right? Price gouging is driven by greed and, especially in emergencies, is simply morally wrong. Politicians love such...
Daan’s Snippets – 30th March 2020
ShoemanLaw Inc has proposed the use of Blockchain technology to store computer-generated wills. This, methinks is a great idea – but it is not...
Daan’s Snippets – 23 March 2020
When instructed by e-media to pay monies into a client’s account, most practices are very cautious. A x-check against existing account numbers, a phone...
Daan’s Snippets – 16th March 2020
One cannot/should not be able to contract out of liability for wilful misconduct or gross negligence: a short article on the topic may be...
Daan’s Snippets – 9th March 2020
A short article, written by Judge Cameron, deals with our prisons system: he says that instead of the retributive approach under the previous regime,...
