Any legal entity (company, CC or trust) requires a resolution to be signed by its decision makers to authorise an individual to sign any required documentation. In the case of a company or CC, the resolution can be signed at any point before or after the documentation...
In a recent Supreme Court of Appeal decision [1], the court dealt with a scenario in which Nedbank Limited had entered into a loan agreement with a trust. In terms of the Trust Deed, for the trust to do business it was a requirement that there should be no fewer than...
When a sectional title complex is first registered, an automatic consequence is that a Body Corporate is automatically formed, and all owners of sectional title units must become members of the Body Corporate. The Body Corporate is then obliged to run the affairs of...
Municipal by-laws vary from municipality to municipality. With this in mind, the collection of debts (and the policy around such collection) in respect of services rendered by a municipality are specifically connected to the by-laws of that municipality. When Can...
Generally speaking, when an attorney is approached by a client asking for legal services, the attorney is obliged to assist. However, there are exceptions to this rule. For instance, the client might be asking for services in a field of law in which the attorney does...
