Two prominent judges have agreed to testify in an unprecedented Legal Practice Council (LPC) complaint against John Hlophe's attorney, Barnabas Xulu – but four years after it was lodged, the case has yet to proceed. After an LPC disciplinary ... Read More
The Constitutional Court has come to the aid of blind and visually impaired people. On 13 December, the court handed down an interim order which again gives them legal protection to convert copyright protected works into accessible formats without having ... Read More
ANC stalwart Bathabile Dlamini, the former Social Development Minister, has been found to be solely responsible for the repayment of about R2m for personal protective services that she authorised to be procured for the spokesperson for her department, Lumka Oliphant ... Read More
Gauteng High Court (Pretoria): Fuel Retailers and Another v Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Judgment: 6 December 2024 Keywords: Civil procedure – Legality of licence issuance pending appeal – Respondents carrying on business while awaiting outcome of appeal against their licence Summary: This urgent ... Read More
North West High Court (Mahikeng): Mamburu v Jacobs and Jacobs Judgment: 9 December 2024 Keywords: Magistrate sues for defamatory affidavits – Lis alibi pendens – Matter pending in Equality Court – Prescription Act 68 of 1969, s 11 (d) – Promotion of Equality and ... Read More
Financial Services Tribunal: N du Preez on behalf of K du Preez v W Smit, H Smit, the Pension Fund Adjudicator and Allan Grey Retirement Annuity Fund Judgment: 4 December 2024 Keywords: Death benefit allocation – Maintenance minor child – Financial dependency – Dependant's ... Read More
Four businessmen and their companies accused of money laundering in connection with a tender linked to 1 064 Transnet locomotives appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on 13 December. The court released Allan Wayne Tichauer, Sudesh Premchand Rocharam, Yaasien Mahomed ... Read More
Mark Lifman murder accused Gert Bezuidenhout and Johan Jacobs appeared in the George Magistrate's Court yesterday for what was scheduled to be a bail application. However, proceedings took a turn when their lawyer, Bulelani Bans, used the session to ... Read More
A 70-year-old farmer, accused of attempted murder and reckless and negligent driving after he allegedly drove into a child he suspected of stealing oranges – breaking his legs – is still behind bars, reports TimesLIVE. Christoffel Stoman appeared yesterday in ... Read More
‘Has the bar for a victory been lowered in SA regarding accountability and comeuppance for the key architects of state capture corruption?’ Daily Maverick financial journalist Ray Mahlaka asks this following consulting giant McKinsey entering into a $122.8m ... Read More
SA has a progressive legal framework for anti-corruption with the Prevention & Combatting of Corrupt Activities Act, the Prevention of Organised Crime Act and the Criminal Procedure Act. However, Advocate Nalini Govender – an investigator at the Office of the ... Read More
Botswana’s new President has promised to restore some rights which were taken away from the Bushmen. This week, the government allowed the tribe to bury Pitseng Gaoberekwe who died in December 2021 on the group’s ancestral land, ending a drawn-out ... Read More
Uganda worked with Kenya to arrest Dr Kizza Besigye last month and forcefully bring him to face security and firearms-related charges, the Director of Prosecution at the army court has told a military court. The revelation by Colonel Rafael Mugisha ... Read More
Somalia and Ethiopia have reached a deal to end a nearly year-old bitter dispute following hours of Turkish-brokered talks in Ankara, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. Hailing it as a ‘historic agreement’, Erdogan said he hoped the deal would ... Read More
Jury trials could be abandoned for some criminal cases in England and Wales under a radical overhaul proposed by Ministers as the Crown Courts backlog hit a record high, reports The Guardian. A review, to be led by the former ... Read More
India's top court is hearing a number of petitions challenging a decades-old law that preserves the character and identity of religious places as they existed at the time of the country's independence in 1947. A BBC News report ... Read More
The father and stepmother of 10-year-old Sara Sharif have been found guilty of her murder after subjecting her to ‘horrific suffering’ for more than two years. A BBC News report notes that Sara was hooded, burned and beaten during a ... Read More
* Bidvest has agreed to sell Bidvest Bank to Access Bank of Nigeria for about R2.8bn as its dismantling of its financial services unit gathers pace. Bidvest also announced FinGlobal’s sale to Momentum Group for an undisclosed amount and said ... Read More
* A woman allegedly planning to cash in on a R50 000 funeral cover was arrested for submitting fraudulent documents to register the death of a ‘ghost child’ at the Home Affairs office in Pietermaritzburg this week. The woman also allegedly ... Read More
* Disgraced lawyer Du-Wayne Stoltz (39) will have to appoint a legal representative before his next appearance in the Gqeberha Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in January. Stoltz returned to court yesterday where it was expected that an attorney would come on ... Read More
