by Sean Slabber | 1 Sep, 2013 | Insights
“It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you. ” – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) In one of his last judgments in the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg before being...
by Sean Slabber | 1 Sep, 2013 | Insights
“The world is disgracefully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.” – Ronald Firbank (1886 – 1926) A High Court order which evicted a number of men, women and children from a certain block of flats in Jeppe Street, Johannesburg which they...
by Sean Slabber | 1 Sep, 2013 | Insights
“I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty.” – Ellen Hooper (1816 – 1841) The Supreme Court of Appeal recently had to evaluate the conduct of the conveyancing attorney of a seller of immovable property. There had been...
by Sean Slabber | 5 Aug, 2013 | Insights
“If we stop loving animals, aren’t we bound to stop loving humans too?” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 – 2008) Carte Blanche recently aired a piece on the cruel treatment of circus animals. Protesters were seen outside Brian Boswell’s circus in...
by Sean Slabber | 5 Aug, 2013 | Insights
“There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.” – Plutarch (46 – 120 AD) Before the adoption of the interim Constitution, rural landowners were not required to pay municipal rates, as rural properties did not fall within the area of...
by Sean Slabber | 22 Nov, 2012 | Insights
Fairbridges has been awarded the Administrative Law Firm of the Year in South Africa for South Africa 2012 by international ratings agency, Corporate INTL, confirming our pre-eminent position as the leading administrative law firm in the country.
