by Daan Steenkamp | Aug 17, 2025 | Business, Economy, Legal, Property, Snippet, Uncategorized
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...
by Daan Steenkamp | Aug 17, 2025 | Business, Economy, Legal, Property, Snippet, Uncategorized
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...
by Daan Steenkamp | Jul 14, 2025 | Business, Economy, Legal, Property, Snippet, Uncategorized
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...
by Daan Steenkamp | May 13, 2025 | Business, Economy, Legal, Property, Snippet, Uncategorized
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,...
by Daan Steenkamp | Apr 25, 2025 | Business, Economy, Legal, Property, Snippet, Uncategorized
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...
by Daan Steenkamp | Mar 10, 2025 | Business, Economics, Economy, Legal, Practice, Property, Snippet
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...
