The Legal Practice

15/02/2023

https://businesstech.co.za/news/government/664969/new-land-expropriation-laws-for-south-africa-are-coming/

Please comment on this bill. South Africans have until 6 March 2023.

03/06/2021

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President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the Cybercrimes Bill into law, bringing South Africa’s cybersecurity laws in line with the rest of the world.

19/04/2021

A landmark judgement handed down by the Constitutional Court will automatically help women in South Africa married before 1988 entered into in terms of the Black Administration Act declaring section 21(2)(a) of the Matrimonial Property Act 88 of 1984 to be Unconstitutional. Please be informed, ladies. Know your rights.

06/03/2021

Make sure your tax affairs are in order as it seems that even 'negligence' may prove to trigger criminal liability as SARS does not need to prove 'intent'.

South African taxpayers should be alert of their exposure to potential criminal liability for the smallest tax transgressions, says Doelie Lessing, director at Werksmans Attorneys

27/02/2021

These changes are tabled for comment right now in South Africa. Take note of them.

The South African Law Reform Commission (SALRC) has called for comments on its discussion paper focusing on a single marriage statute for South Africa.

22/06/2020

An interesting article. We'll have to see the legislation but well done to South Africa for keeping ahead of the curve in terms of legislation. Even though our legal system gets criticized often by those who don't always fully understand/ who have duly been wronged sometimes, our system usually works in wonderful ways as well and must never stand back. We live in a country where Rule of Law is being applied and that is still a big, big privilege.

The National Assembly has passed a number of new bills dealing with a range of issues including marriage, criminal offences and social justice issues

14/05/2020

Litigation: SCA closes financial loophole in divorce cases

A legal loophole often used by husbands to reduce the amount their wives receive in a divorce settlement has been closed by the SCA. A TimesLIVE report says the ruling in CM v EM means living annuities can no longer be used to reduce the value of an estate under the accrual system. In her judgment, SCA President Judge Mandisa Maya overturned a Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) ruling in favour of a husband who had argued that three living annuities were not part of his estate. Maya said the husband had ‘a clear right to the investment returns yielded by his capital re-investment with Sanlam, in the form of future annuity income which he draws from the agreement’. She added: ‘Such annuity income is evidently an asset which can be valued. The trial court actually took that evidence into account, correctly so in my view. But then it erroneously considered the annuity income relevant only for purposes of a maintenance claim. It should have found it to be an asset in the (husband's) estate, which is subject to accrual.’ Maya sent the case back to the High Court, ordering it to consider evidence on the value of future payments the husband would receive from his living annuities.

16/05/2019

Can not reiterate this enough... All parents going through tough times or either divorce proceedings, keep this in mind. Let your child remain a child for as long as possible and talk to other adults about your problems, not to your children. They’ll have plenty of their own problems to solve when they are your age.

29/07/2017

A favourite and absolutely true. Keep this in mind when going through separation or divorce. Try and settle matters in an amicable way and be present when it comes to your children.

30/06/2017

Such an on point article. Please read this.

When growing up, the raising that we receive has much to do with our coping skills as an adult. And I have noticed that I, and other victims of emotional abuse, have certain behaviors that separate us from the rest. If you, or someone you know was a victim of abuse, then you may want…