Is your workplace ready for POPI?
The Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPI) is legislation that was introduced to encourage the protection of personal information which is processed by both public and private bodies. Due to the wide definition of ‘personal information’, the commencement of POPI will have far reaching implications for responsible parties. All businesses are required to […]
How the General Data Protection Regulation affects South African data
With the meteoric increase of electronic data flow over the internet in the past two decades, it has become necessary to institute measures to control how individuals and business enterprises handle peoples’ personal information. This necessity arises as a result of the similarly sharp rise of information theft, identity theft and other criminal acts perpetrated […]
Has Your Claim Prescribed? Not Necessarily…
The recent judgment by the Supreme Court of Appeal in KLD Residential CC v Empire Earth Investments 17 (Pty) Ltd (2017) 3 All SA 739 (SCA) has stirred the proverbial pot with regards to the accepted principles of “without prejudice” correspondence in relation to prescription matters. It is an accepted principle of South African law […]
Sectional Title Schemes: Is there a common solution to common property complaints?
What are your rights to common property under a sectional title scheme? If you are the registered title-holder of a unit in a sectional title scheme, you are the private owner of your section and a joint owner of the common property in the scheme. Sectional owners own the common property collectively in undivided shares […]
How legally enforceable is the principle of “ubuntu”?
Our Courts may have previously considered and been somewhat receptive to the idea of developing the common law to incorporate a duty on parties to negotiate in good faith, however a recent judgment handed down by the Supreme Court of Appeal has put such thoughts into perspective. Roazar CC v The Falls Supermarket CC 2018 […]
CREDIT BUREAUS: CAN I BE BLACKLISTED?
There is no such thing as a “black list”. It simply means that there is negative data on your credit report that is hosted at a Credit Bureau. This negative data can be anything, from a plain collection on one of your loans, right through to judgment data or even debt review. This negative data […]
HOW TO AVOID A COURT BATTLE WITH A DISPUTE
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