In July 2024, the President of South Africa signed the new Climate Change Act (“the Act”) which shall be proclaimed shortly. The Act is a comprehensive attempt at setting out the broad principles to be followed by the various officials of the State in their...
In a recent Supreme Court of Appeal judgment[i], a unanimous bench held that drones, bait carrying remote controlled boats and other remotely operated devices, in certain circumstances are prohibited in terms of the Marine Act.[ii] The judgment dealt specifically with...
The sale of a house often can often lead to the sale of movable property between the parties. The most common instance of this is the sale of furniture items that are located on the property. Here’s what you need to know. Movable vs Immovable Property During a...
For a lease to be binding there are various essential conditions which need to be defined and agreed upon between the parties. If any one or more of these essential conditions are missing, there is no binding lease. These essentialia include the thing leased, the...
As published in Business Day’s September 2024 Business Law and Tax Supplement. In a recent Supreme Court of Appeal judgment [1], the Court dealt with a situation where the Appellant had received a payment from the Road Accident Fund into an inter vivos trust...
