Property Review 2018 – 03

Subsistence allowances are said to be derived from the idea that property rights entail an obligation to share the wealth drawn therefrom: one of the sources of such thinking is said to be a fellow by the name of Paine. Take a look at the following link: Click Here  ...

Business Review 2018 – 03

A “near free” account, to be piloted as differentiation product by African Bank, is targeted at stokvels– which one would be able to open “in your pyjamas on the couch”. Having been through the Fica hoops imposed on me by my own bank, which presumably has known...

Snippet 2018 – 03

Many years ago I kept statistics of the race of legal practitioners, their income and the number of partners comprising their practices. This predated POPI.. One statistic, that defied pigeonholing, was why they were so many practitioners in small or one-man...

Cases Review 2018 – 02

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...

Property Review 2018 – 02

Levy clearance certificates: I regularly receive invalid levy clearance certificates from well-meaning sectional title body corporate administrators. These, depending on the source, one might be tempted to let pass as these are often quite hard to replace, given quite...