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Articles and advice on all things legalSnippet 18-2025
Practice News Lawyers misbehaving: News24 reported on a Gauteng High Court judge having been arrested for corruption; the SAPS must have a particularly strong case as I cannot see them going to such lengths, unless very certain of their case. In a similar league is...
Snippet 17-2025
Practice News A recent news report on cyber fraud noted that some 100,000 South African accounts had been hacked in the past year and R1.9 billion stolen. A part of the problem is prosecution and getting banks to disclose where the money went to; only some 500 such...
Snippet 16-2025
Practice News The Northern Cape High Court has overruled the MEC for Agriculture, holding that rhino conservation breeding facilities may be granted permits to export rhino horns. This is hailed as a breakthrough for conservation. New rules for the Small Claims...
Snippet 15-2025
Practice News Lawyers misbehaving: Our former Public Protector, Adv. Mkhwebane is to stand trial for perjury in February. A report, out this morning and, on the face of it, true, is a Facebook note on the outgoing frontrunner of the R NPA, Batohi, having described her...
Snippet 14-2025
Gentle reader This will be my last newsletter for about a month – SWMBO and I shall be taking leave, to drink chianti & grappa! Going on leave is like doing long jump. You start off and run, you sprint, you run bedonnerd, and then, on the departure board, you hurl...
Snippet 13-2025
Practice News Lawyers An Eastern Cape attorney, who had amended a court judgement to suit, has been scrapped from the roll; yawn. An advocate, a director of the National Lottery Commission, who had misused R21m for his own purposes, has been ordered to repay this....
Snippet 12-2025
Practice News Lawyers: The will of the late Judge Mokgoro was the subject of unpleasantness in the Kimberley High Court: one of the two wills available, had electronic signatures where wet-ink signatures of witnesses were supposed to be. One can only surmise as to...
Snippet 11-2025
Practice News Lawyers behaving badly: A gentleman, having forged, amongst other things, a right of appearance certificate as attorney, was sentenced to 6 years imprisonment. Judge Parker has been found guilty of gross misconduct by our JCT. Advocate Nthai (also our...
Snippet 10-2025
Practice News Undoubtedly the legal news of the week was made, again, by the RAF; certainly, high time that this institution is held up to scrutiny: Scopa has launched a full parliamentary enquiry into the RAF, after it withheld information and then provided false...
Snippet 09-2025
Practice News RAF The RAF’s CEO, you will recall, was first placed on special leave and thereafter on full suspension, on his refusing to appear before SCOPA. He believes that the treatment meted out to him is owing to the legal and judicial elites conspiring in an...
Snippet 08-2025
Practice News The RAF was taken to task in the High Court for contentiously ignoring all the court orders issued… Is this news? Minister Creecy emerged from her dressing room to warn that she would institute a financial misconduct case against the fund’s board; again,...
Snippet 07-2025
Practice News Practitioners behaving badly: You will recall that the LPC is in the process of a striking-off application against adv Mkhwebane. She responded by pleading politics and stating that she is not a practising advocate anyway. The LPC has not covered itself...
Snippet 06-2025
Practice News: Inefficiency and the delay that it brings is endemic to our country. This has spilt over into our court administration. Public Works is behind in its maintenance which, coupled with water and power interruptions and lack of money and the non-employment...
Snippet 05-2025
Practice News It is said that our national sex offenders list should reach over 40,000 names, but there are doubts whether it will be published. The original date of publication had been the end of February, but confidentiality concerns have caused the Minister to...
Snippet 04-2025
PROPERTY Trends Much has been and will be said about our property price trends; visualisation is just so much better (graph by Codera): You will note that the Cape Town prices substantially outperform those in the balance of our country. The semi-gration tide seems to...
Snippet 03-2025
Practice News: Practitioners misbehaving: Adv Mpofu had argued that it was a racist and condescending to assume that Nummawan and his legal team was pursuing a so-called Stalingrad strategy; suggesting that they could not think for themselves. Fun. MK’s John Hlope, in...
Snippet 02-2025
Property Trends: The stagnant South African housing market is showing signs of recovery outside of Cape Town, with predictions of a possible price boom in the offing. Ooba reported a 30% surge in home loan applications for November. If our interest rate is cut,...
Snippet 01-2025
Property Trends: Regular readers of property news will recall that especially (the average) South African residential property prices are in decline, when compared to our inflation rate. South Africans are not alone in this position, as may be seen from the following...
