This week's closing arguments at suspended Gauteng judge Nana Makhubele's disciplinary hearing painted her as being dishonest, with links to state capture, while her defence claimed that she had been unfairly branded as a liar and should be ... Read More
The SCA has ordered the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (Irba) to reconsider new fee structures by 2025, after finding the body had improperly implemented its most recent model that would net it an additional R14m. The ruling affects all ... Read More
VBS Mutual Bank heist accused and former Limpopo ANC treasurer Danny Msiza and co-accused Kabelo Matsepe are again seeking the separation of their trial from that of their co-accused, reports News24. This is what their newly-appointed counsel, Advocate Shaun Abrahams ... Read More
A construction company from Centurion that lost goods valued at more than R3m when a so-called business forum raided its offices has turned to the courts to get its insurer, Momentum, to pay out its claim for theft, according to Moneyweb ... Read More
As the VBS mess slowly catches up with the perpetrators, few have asked what can be learnt from how the bank was regulated, writes Stuart Theobald in a Business Day analysis. 'VBS was a mutual bank, a somewhat odd type ... Read More
A judgment from the High Court in Uganda delivered last week has made legal history: the judge held that, under some circumstances, a company ‘dissolved’ as part of insolvency proceedings could be brought back to life, as it were, and ... Read More
President Hakinde Hichilema has fired the entire board of Zambia's corruption-busting body, after they themselves were accused of graft. It comes days after the head of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), Thom Shamakamba, resigned from his post. Both he and ... Read More
Dozens of people have been detained in the Ugandan capital Kampala after joining scattered anti-corruption protests in defiance of an official ban, reports BBC News. Lawyers said around 60 people, including a prominent TV presenter and three young protest leaders ... Read More
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu plans to slap a one-off 50% tax on windfall profits booked by banks on massive currency gains after the naira was devalued last year. A report on the Head Topics site notes that the move comes ... Read More
Five months after a New York judge held Donald Trump liable for committing business fraud, the former President on Monday appealed his $454m civil fraud case, reports ABC News. Trump and his co-defendants asked New York's Appellate Division to ... Read More
A former managing partner who withheld pension contributions to prop up his ailing firm has agreed to be struck off the roll, reports the Law Gazette. Guy Adams, admitted in 1979 and an equity partner with south west firm Pardoes ... Read More
Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon will stand trial beginning 9 December on charges he defrauded donors in an online effort to raise money for a wall along the US southern border, reports ABC News. During a brief hearing on Tuesday ... Read More
* A gambling addiction led Liezel Badenhorst (44) on a downward spiral as she allegedly stole from a law firm’s trust account to feed her habit. Badenhorst made her first appearance in the Gqeberha Commercial Crime Court following her arrest earlier ... Read More
* The seven cases against three suspects accused of robbing men using Grindr will be heard in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court. Mlungisi Vincent Butu, Bongani Zulu and Zwelakhe Ngwenya face seven counts of kidnapping, extortion and robbery with aggravating circumstances ... Read More
SCA: Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors v East Rand Member District of Chartered Accountants, RJ Brits and Minister of Finance Judgment: 22 July 2024 Keywords: Administrative Law – Powers of Irba under Auditing Profession Act 26 of 2005 – Exercise ... Read More
Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg): Tjabadi v Eskom Judgment: 19 July 2024 Keywords: Defamatory statements in labour hearings – truth in the public interest – privileged occasions – Applicant’s own papers establish that statement justified Summary: Mr Tjabadi, a former Eskom ... Read More
