Book Review – Finsen’s The Building Contract

Book Review – Finsen’s The Building Contract

A Commentary on the JBCC Agreements (3rd Edition) by Stan Segal (601 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za “When we build, let us think that we build forever.”– John Ruskin (1819-1900) In the preface to the second edition of this book (2005),...
Book Review – Applied Law for Police Officials

Book Review – Applied Law for Police Officials

(5th Edition) by Cerita Joubert (603 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za “Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.”– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) According to the...
Book Review – Scott on Cession

Book Review – Scott on Cession

A Treatise on the Law in South Africa by Susan Scott (623 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za “The law regarding cession of actions… presupposes a triangle – a debtor, a creditor who becomes a cedant, and a third party, the cessionary, to whom the...
Book Review: UBUNTU An African Jurisprudence

Book Review: UBUNTU An African Jurisprudence

UBUNTU An African Jurisprudence by T W Bennett, assisted by AR Munro & P J Jacobs  (223 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za “The adoption of this Constitution lays the secure foundation for the people of South Africa to transcend the divisions...