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Buying Property this Festive Season? Check the Title Deed First!

Buying Property this Festive Season? Check the Title Deed First!

Property

“Don’t wait to buy land, buy land and wait” (Will Rogers)   If you plan to buy property this Festive Season – perhaps your new dream house, or a holiday home, or an office for your business, or purely as an investment – check the title deed of the property you...
Lending to a Friend or Selling Property on Credit – Must You Register as a Credit Provider?

Lending to a Friend or Selling Property on Credit – Must You Register as a Credit Provider?

Business, Debt Recovery, Property

“Neither a borrower nor a lender be For loan oft loses both itself and friend” (Shakespeare)   It seems logical that the very strong consumer protections in the NCA (National Credit Act) are designed for commercial situations in which credit is advanced by...
Reporting Crime and the Defamation Danger: Lessons from the Workplace

Reporting Crime and the Defamation Danger: Lessons from the Workplace

Criminal Law / Crime, Delict and Civil Claims, Employment and Labour Law, Litigation

Believing someone to be guilty of a crime you call the police and have the suspect arrested, only to have the charges dropped. Can you be sued for defamation? A recent High Court case provides some answers.   A fraudulent iPad order, an arrest and a R1.6m claim A...
Firearm Owners: What to Do if Your Licence Has Expired

Firearm Owners: What to Do if Your Licence Has Expired

Criminal Law / Crime, General Interest

“… this is a matter of national security and… something of the order of 450,000 gun owners with their expired licences form part of this equation… in a country riddled with crime…” (Extracts from judgment below) Possession of an unlicensed firearm is, for good reason,...
Websites of the Month: The Existential Dread of Gift Giving, and Science to the Rescue!

Websites of the Month: The Existential Dread of Gift Giving, and Science to the Rescue!

Business, General Interest, Website of the Month

“Every holiday season, as we drive ourselves crazy at the mall or shopping online, soaked in the existential dread that comes from trying to find gifts our loved ones might appreciate, I think of the great writer and social critic James Baldwin, who wrote: ‘If the...

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