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- Dr Samantha Smith is a creative Attorney holding a BSocSci, LLB, LLM, and PhD (Law) from UCT. She leads content marketing & strategy across STBB's channels, thought leadership, SEO, and legal marketing collateral.
Conveyancing Correspondent | Registrars’ Conference Resolutions 2024
Last week, the Office of the Chief Registrar of Deeds published the Registrars’ Conference Resolutions 2024 (‘the Resolutions’ or ‘the RCRs’) following a conference to discuss contentious procedural issues affecting Deeds Office practice. Essential to the accurate drafting of deeds
Read MoreNewsflash | Government forges ahead with plan to blacklist child maintenance defaulters
Last Friday, the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development, in collaboration with the Social Justice Foundation, concluded a Memorandum of Understanding (‘MoU’) with the Consumer Profile Bureau to blacklist parents who default on their child maintenance payments. According to research
Read MoreNewsflash | Just in: Government tables the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement
Earlier this afternoon, the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, tabled the much anticipated Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (‘the MTBPS’) in Cape Town. Characterised as the ‘mini-budget’, the MTBPS plays an indispensable role in the budgetary process by establishing the policy
Read MoreBlog | Property transactions: What does the ‘passing of risk’ mean?
Under South African law, the legal effect of any sale, including the disposal of immovable property, is that the risk of loss, damage, or accidental destruction passes from the seller to the purchaser when the sale is perfected. Derived from
Read MoreBlog | FAQs: Signing Agreements of Sale
Under South African law, the sale of immovable property is governed by various statutory requirements. To avoid unnecessary complications and delays, it is essential to adhere to these requirements to ensure an agreement of sale is valid and legally binding.
Read MorePulse | October 2024
Encroaching branches make bad neighbours: A brief overview of legal recourse in arboreal disputes Consider the following hypothetical scenario: Ten years ago, your neighbour planted several fig trees along the wall bordering your properties. Today, the branches hang over your
Read MorePulse | Reforming the visa regime: Home Affairs gazettes amendments to Immigration Regulations
Earlier this month, the Department of Home Affairs published the revised – and much anticipated – requirements for obtaining a remote work visitor visa, and introduced a new and innovative points-based system for work visas under the Third Amendment of
Read MorePulse | Proposed amendments to JSE Listings Requirements on the cards
The JSE Limited (‘the JSE’), which advocates for enhanced corporate governance and an improvement in companies’ financial disclosure reporting mechanisms, recently published draft amendments to the JSE Listings Requirements (‘the Listings Requirements’). Pursuant to the promulgation of the Companies Amendment
Read MorePulse | Pension Funds Adjudicator dismisses claim that biological twins of deceased sperm donor are entitled to receive death benefits
In a ruling that evinces the contemporary complexities of the family law terrain, the Pension Funds Adjudicator (‘PFA’) recently dismissed a peculiar claim from the mother of a deceased sperm donor’s biological twins against Old Mutual Wealth Retirement Annuity Fund
Read MorePulse | Encroaching branches make bad neighbours: A brief overview of legal recourse in arboreal disputes
Consider the following hypothetical scenario: Ten years ago, your neighbour planted several fig trees along the wall bordering your properties. Today, the branches hang over your wall, the leaves litter your yard and clog your gutter, and the roots appear
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