In the case Body Corporate The Straight v Katisi (Case number 2023/031774 – unreported), Windell J in the High Court of South Africa (Gauteng Local Division, Johannesburg) handed down a judgment in January 2025, which offers some relief to beleaguered body corporates....
There’s recently been a key update regarding the timing of FICA verification, set out in Guidance Note 7A, which clarifies when agents need to verify their clients. Timing of Verification: What Has Changed? Previously, there was some uncertainty about when Property...
In the recent Supreme Court of Appeal case, Equistock Properties 8 (Pty) Ltd and Another v Oosthuizen and Others [2025] ZASCA 06, Hughes JA, writing for a unanimous bench, set out the requirements for the obtaining of a final interdict. In his opinion such...
The new Expropriation Act (“the new Act”) which was signed on 20 December 2024 has raised various important issues of substantive law. It seems to me that in this regard two issues require definition and some reflection: firstly, what in fact is it that the new Act...
In a recent Constitutional Court judgment, Thistle Trust v Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service [2024] ZACC19, a majority Court held that the conduit principle, which is accepted by SARS in respect of trusts did not apply to a structure used by the...
