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No Claim? No Problem. Rethinking Creditor Rights in Insolvency Law
23rd May 2025 A recent judgment handed down in the Johannesburg High Court in Single Destination Engineering (Pty) Ltd and Another v Van Den Heever N.O. and... →
Hail the new King – Comments on the new draft King V Governance Code for South African Boards of Directors
23rd May 2025 With the release of the King V Code Draft, South Africa’s corporate governance framework is set to benefit from improvements to King IV, through... →
What Sedumedi v Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University Teaches Employers About Contract Clarity
23rd May 2025 ISSUE: Can an employer terminate a fixed-term employment contract prior to its expiry for operational reasons, where the contract does not... →
Managers, who are members/representatives of a trade union, are still required to fulfil their contractual obligations to their employer
23rd May 2025 In Association of Mineworkers and Construction Workers Union obo Ntuli v Ferroglobe Silicon Smelters (Pty) Ltd, the Labour Court (“LC”) had to... →
Watt You Need to Know on the draft Electricity Transmission Infrastructure Regulations
30th April 2025 The draft regulations to facilitate planning for the procurement and establishment of transmission capacity by private parties (“the Regulations”)... →
Court Orders Gauteng Department of Health to Provide Cancer Treatment to Patients Awaiting Care
23rd April 2025 On 27 March 2025, the Gauteng Local Division of the High Court, Johannesburg, granted urgent interim relief in the matter of Cancer Alliance v... →
Proposed R100-billion Transformation Fund will have significant implications for Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (“BBBEE”) regulation in South Africa
23rd April 2025 On 19 March 2025, the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (“DTIC”) issued a draft Transformation Fund Concept Document for public... →
Allegations of Ethnic Discrimination Require Evidence: the Sagan Principle
23rd April 2025 In 1979 science communicator and physicist Carl Sagan wrote in his book Broca’s Brain that “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”,... →
