A mother – owed R175 000 in unpaid interim maintenance from her estranged husband – was forced to go to the High Court to get an order compelling the sheriff to obey a court instruction to attach money in his bank account, says a report in The Mercury. The office of the sheriff had refused for months to act on an order issued by the Regional Magistrate’s Court on 1 June this year.

When the matter came before KZN High Court Judge (Durban) Pieter Bezuidenhout last week, he said the sheriff was wrong and legislation authorised attachment of money on instruction from the Regional Court. The office of the sheriff did not file opposing papers and agreed to abide by the decision of the court.

Full report in The Mercury (subscription needed)