by Sean Slabber | 22 Jul, 2014 | Insights
According to a recent media statement by the Department of Basic Education, Mandarin will be introduced as a new elective subject in schools, in terms of a co-operation agreement signed last year by South Africa and China on formalising the teaching of Mandarin in...
by Sean Slabber | 21 Jul, 2014 | Insights
“I am concerned when I read about inadequate facilities in the Magistrates Court; it is really in the lower courts where justice affects the people.” – former Constitutional Court judge, Justice Richard Goldstone
by Sean Slabber | 18 Jul, 2014 | Insights
Mandela Day was officially adopted by the United Nations as an international day in 2009. The initiative, held each year on Mandela’s birthday, asks each of us to give 67 minutes of our time to a positive initiative in our communities. The initiative is no...
by Sean Slabber | 17 Jul, 2014 | Insights
Mediation FAQ 4: Is mediation voluntary? Yes. No legislation has yet been published in the Government Gazette making pre-litigation mediation compulsory. Court-assisted consensual mediation has now been provided for in recent amendments to the Magistrates Court Rules....
by Sean Slabber | 17 Jul, 2014 | Insights
In the recent judgment of Moropane v Southon, the Supreme Court of Appeal affirmed developing jurisprudence on customary marriage, which seeks to place African customary marriage ‘on the same pedestal as civil marriages’. During divorce proceedings a Pedi man argued...
by Sean Slabber | 16 Jul, 2014 | Insights
Pro-medical dagga activist, Sheldon Cramer, has instituted a High Court action against the state, calling for the laws on dagga to be reviewed, ‘given the evidence that dagga is actually a well-documented potent medicine capable of curing cancer.’ According to...
