{"id":5887,"date":"2016-04-21T06:53:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T04:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/?p=5887"},"modified":"2019-12-24T06:55:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T04:55:32","slug":"property-law-update-issue-14-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/property-law-update-issue-14-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Property Law Update | Issue 14 &#8211; 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A PROMISE TO PAY NEEDS MORE THAN GOOD INTENTIONS<\/h2>\n<h3>Nedbank Limited v Blue Sands Trading 537 CC and Others (9840\/2014) [2016] ZAKZDHC 4<br \/>\n(15 February 2016)<\/h3>\n<p>Often when times are tough, homeowners approach their bondholders to negotiate alternative repayment terms. But a second chance requires nurturing, lest it counts against them when the crunch comes. The outcome here is illustrative of considerations at play when a court is asked to declare someone&#8217;s home executable, the judgment noting that &#8220;[f]or the purpose of the present application \u2026 the issue of the debtors&#8217; payment history \u2026 was a factor that weighed heavily with me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>read more<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saflii.org\/za\/cases\/ZAKZDHC\/2016\/4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #e66a21;\">The Judgment<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/wp-content\/uploads\/stbb_plu14-2016_s1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #e66a21;\">Summary of the Judgment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>DEMOLITION ORDER AGAINST NEIGHBOUR&#8217;S ILLEGAL BUILDING<\/h2>\n<h3>BSB International Link CC v Readam South Africa (Pty) Ltd (279\/2015) [2016] ZASCA 58<br \/>\n(13 April 2016)<\/h3>\n<p>This is a confirmatory judgment where the Supreme Court of appeal upheld the court a quo&#8217;s judgment ordering a property owner to partially demolish those building works that contravened zoning provisions, on application by a neighbour. The National Building Regulations and Building Standards Act affords this remedy only on application by a municipality or the Minister and the importance here is that the court affirmed that at common law a court has a discretion to grant demolition, in appropriate circumstances, on application by a neighbour or third party whose rights are affected by the contravention of building regulations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>read more<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saflii.org\/za\/cases\/ZASCA\/2016\/58.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #e66a21;\">The Judgment<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/wp-content\/uploads\/stbb_plu14-2016_s2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #e66a21;\">Summary of the Judgment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A PROMISE TO PAY NEEDS MORE THAN GOOD INTENTIONS Nedbank Limited v Blue Sands Trading 537 CC and Others (9840\/2014) [2016] ZAKZDHC 4 (15 February 2016) Often when times are tough, homeowners approach their bondholders to negotiate alternative repayment terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":3153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-property-law-update"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Property Law Update | Issue 14 - 2016 - STBB<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/property-law-update-issue-14-2016\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Maryna Botha\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/stbb.co.za\\\/dev2\\\/property-law-update-issue-14-2016\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/stbb.co.za\\\/dev2\\\/property-law-update-issue-14-2016\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Maryna Botha\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/stbb.co.za\\\/dev2\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/623606b2022560795816523a4fd0bfec\"},\"headline\":\"Property Law Update | Issue 14 &#8211; 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