by Daan Steenkamp | May 24, 2018 | Legal
Often, usually specialist, work is legally reserved to a profession or specially qualified group of persons – in order to protect the public. When it comes to conveyancing, a specialist field within a professional grouping, the factors at work are primarily that a...
by Daan Steenkamp | May 10, 2018 | Cases, Legal
Pensioners versus Transnet This much reported on case is more complex than it initially appears: the class action is based on an oral promise made by the general manager of the then South African Transport Services and the Minister of Transport, that certain pension...
by Daan Steenkamp | May 3, 2018 | Cases, Legal
Conveyancers’ duty of care Two firms of attorneys were sued by the disgruntled owners of properties on which residential buildings were demolished with the intent that the property be consolidated and that a developer would construct a scheme on the whole and provide...
by Daan Steenkamp | Apr 26, 2018 | Cases, Legal
Water discharge on to a lower property. A long-held tenet of our neighbour law is that the owner of a property is obliged to accept the water discharge from that of a property situated above it, provided that the water is not concentrated in that discharge. A recent...
by Daan Steenkamp | Dec 8, 2017 | Legal
Many of our more sophisticated citizens – especially business persons – elect to enter into an ante-nuptial contract (an “ANC”) prior to marriage. The intent usually is to separate their estates; to protect themselves against the insolvency of one of them and to...
by Daan Steenkamp | Nov 29, 2017 | Legal
We often lend money or allow a purchaser credit, linked with the payment of interest. Think friendly loans, credit on a purchase of a bicycle, land and the like. Such agreements, however innocent they may be, may well be voidable in future, given a recent amendment of...
