Daan’s Snippets – 2nd March 2020
Practice
Broke? RAF attorneys were reportedly asked to hand back their un-finalised files by Thursday last week in what appears to be a cost-cutting exercise...
Daan’s Snippets – 24th February 2020
Practice
The rigidity of Roman law of contract was ameliorated by the introduction of normative principles allowing the adaptation of law to the changing needs...
Snippets – 17th February 2020
Practice
The legal circus of senior judges exchanging accusations in the Western Cape High Court continues: a recently enrolled case deals with an allegation that...
Daan’s Snippets – 10th February 2020
Practice
Judge Cachalia says that our bench is now suffering, at all levels, from a shortage of skills: he says that the JSC has overemphasised...
Daan’s Snippets – 3rd February 2020
Practice
Golegal published a note on touts at hospitals: this piqued my interest as (and I confess not having bothered to read this) our ethics...
Daan’s Snippets 27th January 2020
Practice
Res judicata is legal shorthand for the principle that one may not re-litigate on the same dispute; an abuse of process. Two litigants sued...
Daan’s Snippets 20th January
Economics
Same old - plus ça change(for the Lani) ; the self inflicted decline of our economy and, indeed, our state, continues:
our SOE’s are in...
Daan’s Snippets – 36 of 2019
Gentle Reader,This will be the last Snippets for this year – I will resume late in January. Do enjoy the festive season, take a...
Daan’s Snippets – 35th of 2019
Economy - Tito Mboweni says that SAA is a vanity that we cannot afford: I cannot help but hope that the mother of all...
Daan’s Snippets 34th of 2019
Economics
Flatlining. On Friday I was again privileged to attend an economic presentation by Nedbank’s Nicky Weimar. She says that our GDP growth, oscillates between...
Daan’s Snippets – 33rd of 2019
Economy
Our MTBPS has come and gone; somewhat depressing as it outlines an economy on autopilot. The malaise affecting our economy has not been addressed....
Daan’s Snippets – 32nd of 2019
Economics
A summary of what went down this week:
SA has dropped two places to 84th in the Ease of Doing Business 2020 report, fifth in...
