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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...
Book Review – Principles of Market Abuse Regulation
A Comparative South African Perspective by Howard Chitimira (168 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za "Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get."– George...
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...
Book Review – Public Interest Litigation in SA
by Jason Brickhill (contributing Editor) (433 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za "The welfare of the people is the ultimate law"– Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Litigation in the...
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...
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...
Book Review: The Law of Arbitration
The Law of Arbitration South African and International Arbitration by PAA RAMSDEN (Second Edition) (416 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za "The settlement or the solution of all...
Book Review: Precedents for Applications in Civil Proceedings
Precedents for Applications in Civil Proceedings by Peter van Blerk (772 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za "Then rising with Aurora's light, The Muse invoked, sit down to write; Blot...
TerraLex Partners with HighQ to Enhance Members’ Ability to Collaborate
Fairbridges Wertheim Becker is the exclusive South African member of the global network of independent law firms TerraLex. TerraLex has announced its recent partnership with HighQ, a leading tech...
When humour steps on legal toes
On a daily basis, people of all age groups, and in particular the youth, spend time during their day looking at and sharing images containing humorous catch phrases on social media. These images are...
Evicting a Tenant? Not so Fast!
Whilst it is accepted law that a landlord is entitled to give a commercial property tenant only one month's notice to vacate the premises where the tenancy has continued by agreement on a...
Boardroom Battles – When Shareholders fall out.
The Johannesburg High Court has set out the duties of directors of a company where the only two shareholders locked horns in dispute with each other. An application made by the majority shareholder...
Book Review: Undoing Delict
The South African Law of Delict under the Constitution by Anton Fagan (316 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za "The common law is not to be trapped within the limitations of its past....
Book Review: Trust Law in South Africa
By Walter D. Geach Editor: Louise du Toit (553 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za "Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody." – Agatha Christie...
Book Review: The Law of the Sea
The African Union and its Member States Editors: Patrick Vrancken and Martin Tsamenyi (867 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd www.jutalaw.co.za "On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card,...
Book Review: Child Law in South Africa (2nd Edition)
Edited by Trynie Boezaart (853 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd - www.juta.co.za "Child! do not throw this book about; Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as...
Fairbridges Wertheim Becker: Breaking News
TerraLex worldwide network of independent law firms selected as Global Network of the Year 2018. Fairbridges Wertheim Becker, the exclusive South African member since 1999 of the international...
Medical band-aid: It is not every payment made in error that entitles the mistaken party to recover payment
The Supreme Court of Appeal has upheld a High Court judgment in Gauteng ordering a service provider to repay Medshield Medical Scheme over R6 million wrongly paid to it by Medshield in the mistaken...
Fairbridges Wertheim Becker ranked top law firm in the Western Cape
The independent rating agency PMR.africa (Professional Management Review) has announced that Fairbridges Wertheim Becker has earned the 2018 Diamond Arrow Award for achieving the highest rating of...
Risk and Reward: Duties and Obligations of Financial Service Providers
The High Court has ordered a financial adviser to pay back to her the R2 million a widow invested on his advice, plus interest and costs because he failed to exercise the reasonable standard of care...
Droughts and Floods – what a local municipality must do
While the Western, Eastern, and Northern Cape Provinces suffer the ravages of climate change as water resources dry out, in other areas of South Africa flooding causes its own havoc....
No smoke without fire: We review Dr John Grogan’s third edition of his important employment law book Dismissal
DISMISSAL (Third Edition) By John Grogan (805 pages) Juta & Co (Pty) Ltd | www.jutalaw.co.za "Even I regained my freedom with a sigh." - Lord Byron (1788 – 1824) In American television reality...
The Law of Evidence Cases and Statutes by SS Terblance with BC Naudé
Reviewed by Louis Rood. An understanding of the principles of the law of evidence and how they are interpreted and applied in practice is essential to the proper functioning of our courts. Twenty...
Book Review: Criminal Procedure Legislative Guide by Juta Law Editors
Reviewed by Louis Rood. Primarily aimed at students of criminal procedure, this comprehensive guide to the legislation framing criminal procedure in South Africa will also be welcomed by legal...