A recent judgment by the South Gauteng High Court warns users to be careful when publishing, sharing, commenting on or allowing themselves to be tagged in potentially defamatory online postings....

WITS announced last month that it was scrapping its 4-year LLB degree program. This means that students will now have to complete either a three-year BA or BCom degree before enrolling for the...

"Research shows that 76% of South African consumers switched one of their service providers in the past year due to poor customer service."...

Today marks the deadline for the filing of a complaint in a US lawsuit against Ford and IBM for encouraging race-based human rights abuses in apartheid-era South Africa. Despite limitations being...

In 1902 the then senior partner of Fairbridges, Henry Arderne, donated the sum of £ 1,250 payable in five annual installments to the South African College, later the University of Cape Town, to...

Cape Town will play host to the Clean Power Africa conference on 13 and 14 May. The conference will take place at the CTICC and deal with the harnessing of hydro, wind and solar power.

Congratulations to Fairbridges Amabutho Warriors action soccer team for yet again winning the Five Futbol League (Law Firm Division) beating all the big guns on the way with style, finesse, tenacity...

Louis Rood has been nominated for the exclusive Litigation position in South Africa on The Lawyer Network, a comprehensive international guide to legal services in over 95 countries. Andrew Hewitt...

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...

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...

“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...

“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...

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...

“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...

“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...

“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...

“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....

“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 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...