News and Commentary
Success Rating
The August 2013 edition of Succeed magazine features lessons in longevity from three of South Africa’s oldest companies, including Fairbridges. The importance of consistency, adaptability, and...
Fairbridges and the Chief Justice of of South Africa
Shortly after Fairbridges was founded in 1812, Christoffel Brand, on leaving school at the age of sixteen entered the office of our founder John Merrington and worked there for two years before...
The State Attorney
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” - Martin luther King (1929 - 1968) An important function of our courts was illustrated in a recent...
Constitutional Law
“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.” - Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957) Judge Plasket sitting in the Eastern Cape High Court in Grahamstown has given an...
The Survivor´s Guide for Candidate Attorneys (2nd Ed, 2013) By Bhauna Hansjee & Fahreen Kader
All Candidate Attorneys are required to serve a period of articles, usually two years, before becoming eligible to be admitted to practice. during that time they must pass the Attorneys’ Admission...
Law of Succession
“Most usually our virtues are only vices in disguise.” - Francois, duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680) The Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein has heard a case where in terms of a will money...
Social Networks
“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...
Administrative Law
“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...
Professional Negligence
“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...
Animal Protection Act
“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....
From the Courts: Municipal Law
“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...
Fairbridges Has Been Elected Administrative Law Firm of the Year
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...