Book Review – Employment Rights

Book Review – Employment Rights

by John Grogan (3rd Edition) (472 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za “Who first invented work, and bound the free and holiday-rejoicing spirit down to that dry drudgery at the desk’s dry wood?”– Charles Lamb (1775-1834) This is the...
Book Review – Dugard’s International Law

Book Review – Dugard’s International Law

by John Dugard, Max Du Plessis, Tiyanjana Maluwa & Dire Tladi (Fifth Edition) (938 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za “Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations – entangling alliances with none.”– Thomas Jefferson...
Book Review – Public Procurement Regulation

Book Review – Public Procurement Regulation

by Sope Williams-Elegbe and Geo Quinot (editors) (370 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za “The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.”– William Henry Beverage (1879-1963) Governments around...
Transformation of Parental Leave in South Africa

Transformation of Parental Leave in South Africa

On the 27 November 2018 President Cyril Ramaphosa signed various amendments to labour legislation into law. These amendments have introduced additional parental leave benefits for fathers, adoptive parents as well as commissioning parents and have effect from 1...
Changing the face of Contractual Agreements

Changing the face of Contractual Agreements

Section 11 (1) of ECTA provides that: ‘Information is not without legal force and effect merely on the grounds that it is wholly or partly in the form of a data message.’ This is a simple sentence but has given a new dimension to contractual agreements as we know...