by Daan Steenkamp | Mar 21, 2020 | Business, Legal, Practice
A farmer contracts to supply logs to a purchaser after having made the necessary arrangements to automate his tree harvesting activities: he orders the machines. Owing to the closure of borders and factories, following on the corona virus pandemic, these are not...
by Daan Steenkamp | Jul 9, 2019 | Legal, Property
You and your neighbour, an old friend, have a decades-old handshake understanding that you and your employees may take a shortcut through his adjoining farm, over an existing road, for you and them to get to another part of your farm. Is this agreement valid and, if...
by Daan Steenkamp | Jul 18, 2018 | Legal, Property
– Dr John Scotcher Prior to 1972, the establishment of large-scale state-sponsored and private afforestation was promoted to supply the increasing demand for mining and structural timber. There were no laws before 1972 that limited the expansion of plantation...
by Daan Steenkamp | Jun 11, 2018 | Legal
This week past I came across an Assistant Registrar of Deeds poring over a case in which the presiding judge had a really unpleasant things to say about the Johannesburg Registrar of Deeds. This case, I believe, will lead to changes that will be made in our deeds...
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...
